Education
Cornell University; University of Pennsylvania.
astrophysicist physicist university professor
Cornell University; University of Pennsylvania.
He studies the formation of the early universe, cosmic structure, and dark energy. Albrecht graduated in 1979 from Cornell University, Ithaca and was awarded a doctorate in 1983 at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia on cosmology. He later carried out post-doctoral research at University of Texas, Austin and at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Albrecht later worked at Fermilab from 1987 to 1992 and subsequently taught at Imperial College, London from 1992 to 1998.
Albrecht is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and Fellow of the Institute of Physics (United Kingdom).
Along with João Magueijo, Albrecht independently proposed a model of varying speed of light cosmology which posits that the speed of light in the early universe was trillion times faster to explain the horizon problem of cosmology. More recently, Albrecht has worked on quantum mechanics, as well as probability and quantum theory.