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Anna-Christina Eilers received her Bachelor's degree in Physics from the University of Göttingen, focusing on neuroscience. Following 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 subsequently completed her PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg. In 2019, she was awarded the 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. Eilers develops new methods to study the formation and evolution of supermassive black holes and galaxies in the early universe. Her research utilizes a combination of multi-wavelength observations from telescopes in space, cosmological simulations, and new machine learning models.