Siegfried Eggl

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Education

• B.S., Astrophysics, University of Vienna, 2005
• M.S., Astrophysics, University of Vienna, 2008
• M.S., Computational Physics, University of Vienna, 2009
• Ph.D., Astrophysics, University of Vienna, 2013

Academic Positions

• Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2021-today
• NCSA faculty affiliate (0%), Center for Astrophysical Surveys (CAPS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2021-today
• Affiliate faculty (0%), Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2022-today
• Acting Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Astronomy, 2018-2021
• Post doctoral researcher, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Planetary Science, Pasadena, CA, 2016-2018
• Post doctoral researcher, IMCCE/Paris Observatory, Paris, France, Astronomy, 2013-2016

Design Teams

• Clear Constellation competition (https://www.clearconstellation.com/)

Research Interests

• Astrodynamics
• Planetary Defense
• Celestial Navigation
• Dynamical Systems
• Space Domain Awareness

Books Authored or Co-Authored (Original Editions)

• Pilat-Lohinger, E., Eggl, S., & Bazsó, Á. (2019). Planetary Habitability in Binary Systems (Vol. 4). World Scientific.

Chapters in Books

• Eggl, S., & Dvorak, R. (2010). An introduction to common numerical integration codes used in dynamical astronomy. In Dynamics of small solar system bodies and exoplanets (pp. 431-480). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
• Eggl, S. (2018). Habitability of planets in binary star systems. Handbook of Exoplanets, ISBN 978-3-319-55332-0. Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature, 2018, id.61

Selected Articles in Journals

• Cheng, A. F., Agrusa, H. F., Barbee, B. W., Meyer, A. J., Farnham, T. L., Raducan, S. D., Richardson, D. C., Dotto, E., Zinzi, A., Della Corte, V., Statler, T. S., Chesley, S., Naidu, S. P., Hirabayashi, M., Li, J.-Y., Eggl, S., et al. (2023), Nature, Momentum transfer from the DART mission kinetic impact on asteroid Dimorphos, 616, 457.
• Schwamb, M. E., Jones, R. L., Yoachim, P., Volk, K., Dorsey, R. C., Opitom, C., Greenstreet, S., Lister, T., Snodgrass, C., Bolin, B. T., Inno, L., Bannister, M. T., Eggl, S., et al. (2023), The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Tuning the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) Observing Strategy for Solar System Science, 266, 22.
• Makadia, R., Raducan, S. D., Fahnestock, E. G., & Eggl, S. (2022), The Planetary Science Journal, Heliocentric Effects of the DART Mission on the (65803) Didymos Binary Asteroid System, 3, 184.
• Moeyens, J., Jurić, M., Ford, J., Bektešević, D., Connolly, A. J., Eggl, S., Ivezić, Ž., Jones, R. L., Kalmbach, J. B., & Smotherman, H. (2021), The Astronomical Journal, THOR: An Algorithm for Cadence-independent Asteroid Discovery, 162, 143.
• Quarles, B., Eggl, S., Rosario-Franco, M., & Li, G. (2021), The Astronomical Journal, Exomoons in Systems with a Strong Perturber: Applications to α Cen AB, 162, 58.
• Georgakarakos, N., Eggl, S., & Dobbs-Dixon, I. (2021), Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, Circumbinary habitable zones in the presence of a giant planet, 8, 44.
• Eggl, S., Georgakarakos, N., & Pilat-Lohinger, E. (2020), Galaxies, Habitable Zones in Binary Star Systems: A Zoology, 8, 65.
• Eggl, S., Farnocchia, D., Chamberlin, A. B., & Chesley, S. R. (2020), Icarus, Star catalog position and proper motion corrections in asteroid astrometry II: The Gaia era, 339, 113596.
• Farnocchia, D., Eggl, S., Chodas, P. W., Giorgini, J. D., & Chesley, S. R. (2019), Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, Planetary encounter analysis on the B-plane: a comprehensive formulation, 131, 36.