{"id":1355,"date":"2021-02-02T08:21:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T08:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexeggemeier.com\/index.php\/home\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T09:41:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T09:41:24","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.alexeggemeier.com\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Hi! I'm Alex Eggemeier.<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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I’m a theoretical astrophysicist at the Argelander Institute for Astronomy, <\/a>University of Bonn. I work with the biggest maps of the cosmic large-scale structure to understand our Universe’s past, present, and future.<\/p>

How did I get here?<\/h4>

I\u2019m originally from a tiny place called Osterledde, in the countryside near M\u00fcnster and not far from the Teutoburg Forest. For my undergraduate studies in physics, I first moved to G\u00f6ttingen — a beautiful university town in the heart of Germany, famous for past residents such as Carl Friedrich Gau\u00df, Max Planck, and Werner Heisenberg, and known as one of the birthplaces of quantum mechanics. There, I took my first steps into cosmology while working on my Bachelor\u2019s thesis. Through the Erasmus programme, I had afterwards the chance to study for a year at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen — the second birthplace of quantum mechanics — before returning to G\u00f6ttingen to complete my Master\u2019s thesis. I then received a PhD scholarship in the UK, which I spent mostly at the University of Sussex in Brighton, with a six-month research stay at NYU in New York City. I obtained my PhD in 2018 with a thesis on the large-scale clustering of galaxies. After all that excitement, I moved to the calmer but not any less lovely North of England for my first postdoc at the Institute for Computational Cosmology at Durham University. Finally, in 2021, I joined the University of Bonn as the Argelander Fellow.<\/p>

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And when I’m not thinking about the Universe?<\/h4>

I’m a passionate, classically trained amateur pianist (and a sometime saxophonist, though it\u2019s been a while since I last played), and I love to relax playing music.\u00a0 Other than that, you can often find me exploring the countryside around Bonn by bike — both on and off the road. Since my days at Sussex, I’ve also become a keen squash player and I always enjoy spending time in my kitchen cooking and baking!\u00a0<\/p>

Did I get you interested?<\/h4>

You want to know more, or you are an undergraduate student who would like to work with me — please get in touch!<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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