Anna-Christina Eilers

Anna-Christina Eilers received her Bachelor’s degree in Physics from the University of Goettingen with a focus on neuroscience. After an internship at the European Space Agency in The Netherlands she decided to study astrophysics at the University of Heidelberg, where she obtained her Master’s degree and completed her PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg.

In 2019 she was awarded a NASA Hubble Fellowship and the Pappalardo Fellowship to continue her research at MIT. In July 2023 she joined MIT’s Physics faculty as an assistant professor. In her research, Eilers develops new methods to study the formation and evolution of supermassive black holes and galaxies in the early universe. She uses a combination of multi-wavelength observations from telescopes around the world and in space, cosmological simulations, as well as new machine learning models.