Eva Grebel

Eva K. Grebel is a German astronomer. Since 2007 she has been co-director of the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Eva Grebel is an expert in the study of stellar populations and galaxy formation.

In 2007, Grebel was appointed a Full Professor of Astronomy at Heidelberg University, where she also became one of two directors of the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut. At that time, Grebel was the only female full professor for astronomy in Germany.

In 2000, Grebel returned to Germany as a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg. In 2003, she accepted an appointment to the chair of observational astronomy at the Astronomical Institute of the University of Basel, as the successor of Gustav Tammann. From 2004–2007, she served as the institute's director.

Subsequently, Grebel took at postdoc positions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1995–1996), at Würzburg University (1996–1997) and at the University of California, Santa Cruz (1997–1998). She won a Hubble Fellowship in 1998, joining the University of Washington in Seattle as a Hubble fellow 1998–2000.

She took up graduate studies at the University of Bonn, spending two years in 1992–1994 as a student fellow at the European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory in Chile. She obtained her PhD in 1995 with distinction. Her dissertation topic was "Stellar population studies in nearby galaxies".

Grebel studied physics and astronomy at the University of Bonn, obtaining her Diplom degree in physics in 1991. For part of the same year, she was a summer student at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.