Eva Grebel is an expert in the study of stellar populations and galaxy formation.

For part of the same year, she was a summer student at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.

[5][6] In 2000, Grebel returned to Germany as a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg.

In 2003, she accepted an appointment to the chair of observational astronomy at the Astronomical Institute of the University of Basel, as the successor of Gustav Tammann.

[5][6] In 2007, Grebel was appointed a full professor of astronomy at Heidelberg University, where she also became one of two directors of the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut.