Alexander C.T. Geppert is Associate Professor of History and European Studies and Global Network Associate Professor at New York University Shanghai as well as NYUâs Center for European and Mediterranean Studies in New York City. From 2010 to 2016 he directed the Emmy Noether research group âThe Future in the Stars: European Astroculture and Extraterrestrial Life in the Twentieth Centuryâ at Freie Universität Berlin.