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

• Affiliate faculty (0%), Department of Astronomy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2022-today
• NCSA faculty affiliate (0%), Center for Astrophysical Surveys (CAPS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2021-today
• Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2021-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

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Nandakumar, S., Eggl, S., Tregloan-Reed, J., Adam, C., Anderson-Baldwin, J., Bannister, M. T., Battle, A., Benkhaldoun, Z., Campbell, T., Colque, J. P., Damke, G., Plauchu Frayn, I., Ghachoui, M., Guillen, P. F., Kaeouach, A. E., Krantz, H. R., Langbroek, M., Rattenbury, N., Reddy, V., Ridden-Harper, R., Young, B., Unda-Sanzana, E., Watson, A. M., Walker, C. E., Barentine, J. C., Benvenuti, P., Di Vruno, F., Peel, M. W., Rawls, M. L., Bassa, C., Flores-Quintana, C., García, P., Kim, S., Longa-Peña, P., Ortiz, E., Otarola, Á., Romero-Colmenares, M., Sanhueza, P., Siringo, G., & Soto, M. (2023), Nature, The high optical brightness of the BlueWalker 3 satellite, 623, 938.
• Makadia, R., Chesley, S.R., Farnocchia, D., Naidu, S.P., Souami, D., Tanga, P., Tsiganis, K., Hirabayashi, M. and Eggl, S., (2024), The Planetary Science Journal, Measurability of the Heliocentric Momentum Enhancement from a Kinetic Impact: The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission. 5(2), p.38.

Research Honors

• Asteroid 2000 GT167 named "Eggl" in honor of significant contributions to the field of planetary science. (06/21/2023 )