Astrid Eichhorn has completed her PhD in Physics at the University of Jena under the supervision of Holger Gies in 2011. Subsequently, she became a postdoc at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, where she was promoted to senior postdoc. In 2014, she became a Junior Research Fellow at Imperial College and started her own research group, funded by the DFG's Emmy-Noether program, at Heidelberg University in 2016. She became associate professor at the University of Southern Denmark in 2019 and was promoted to full professor in 2023. Since 2024, she is professor in Theoretical Physics at Heidelberg University.
She is also a Perimeter Institute Visiting Fellow.

Astrid Eichhorn was a member of Die Junge Akademie from 2018 to 2023 and served as the academy's speaker in 2021/22. She is also one of the founding members of the International Society for Quantum Gravity and was the chair of ALLEA (All European Academies) working group on climate sustainability in the academic system.
Her research program has won funding offers from the DFG (Emmy-Noether Program), DFF (Sapere Aude grant), Villum Foundation (Villum Young Investigator program) and the Carlsberg foundation (Carlsberg Semper Ardens Accomplish) and has also been recognized by a Hengstberger prize for young scientists.