Andreas Albrecht

Andreas Johann Albrecht is an American theoretical physicist who deals with cosmology.

Albrecht studied at Cornell University (Bachelor 1979) and received his doctorate in 1983 at the University of Pennsylvania with Paul Steinhardt of the theory of the inflationary universe (A new inflationary cosmology ), the first formulation was given by Alan Guth, a few years earlier. 1983 to 1985 he was a post-doc at Imperial College London, where he was a lecturer and in 1998 professor at the University of Texas at Austin, followed by two years at Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1987-1992 at Fermilab and from 1992 to 1998. Since 1998 he is professor at the University of California, Davis.

Albrecht is primarily known for the developed with his supervisor Steinhardt new inflationary model of the universe in 1982. Later he dealt with the consequences of the inflationary model, for example, in the reheating phase ( reheating ) at the end of the inflationary expansion, than the ordinary matter of the universe was created.

With Neil Turok, he examined the late 1980s numerically the emergence of large-scale structure of the universe by cosmic strings. In the 1990s he worked, inter alia, to with the emergence of anisotropies in the cosmic background radiation and the resulting constraints on cosmological models of structure formation and dark energy.

In 1998, he struck with João Magueijo before a cosmology with varying speed of light.