Draft:Jochen Weller
German cosmologist and astrophysicist
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Jochen Weller (born 22 November 1969) is a German cosmologist and astrophysicist and a professor at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.[1] His research has focused on dark energy, large-scale structure, and cosmological analyses involving galaxy clusters.[2][3]
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Jochen Weller | |
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| Born | 22 November 1969 Schramberg, Germany |
| Alma mater | University of Karlsruhe; Imperial College London |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Astrophysics, cosmology |
| Institutions | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
| Thesis | Observational consequences of modern cosmological theories (2000) |
| Doctoral advisor | Andreas Albrecht |
Career and education
Weller studied at the University of Karlsruhe from 1990 to 1996.[4] He received his PhD from Imperial College London in 2000 under Andreas Albrecht.[1]
From 2000 to 2002, he was a research associate in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. From 2002 to 2004, he worked at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, and held a Trapnell Fellowship at King's College, Cambridge.[5]
From 2004 to 2005, he was a David Schramm Fellow at Fermilab.[6] From 2005 to 2008, he was a lecturer at University College London.[7]
Since 2008, Weller has been professor at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.[1] He is an associate member of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics.[8] In 2026, he was elected a member of Academia Europaea.[9]