Professor Eckehard Mielke was born in June 1947 in Lower Saxony, Germany, as the third son of Walter Mielke and his wife, Charlotte Jopp. Since 1999, he has been married and has two children.

In Hamburg, he started elementary school in 1954. After moving to Kiel, from 1958 to 1966, he attended the Hebbelschule, a grammar school for boys, where he took his "Abitur", with the distinction of being exempt from oral examination. After completing compulsory military service, in 1968, he studied physics and mathematics at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel until obtaining his diploma in 1972. In 1976 he completed his Ph.D. thesis in Kiel on "Quantum Field Theory in Sitter Space" under the direction of Lothar Wiedecke at the Institute for Pure and Applied Nuclear Physics of Erich Bagge, a former student of Heisenberg.

From September 1973 to August 1974, he pursued graduate studies at Princeton University in general relativity in the stimulating group of John Archibald Wheeler on a foreign exchange scholarship from the "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes". From October 1976 until 1977, Mielke conducted research at the Mathematical Institute of Oxford University in Roger Penrose's group on a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) fellowship and then continued his research at the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, under the auspices of Abdus Salam with the support of DFG (German National Research Foundation) habilitation grant. In April 1982, he submitted his habilitation thesis "On the Hypotheses on which Geometrodynamics is founded" to the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Kiel, which eventually became the book "Geometrodynamics of Gauge fields", published in 1987 by Akademie-Verlag, Berlin. (Second edition, Springer International Publishing Switzerland, Studies in Mathematical Physics 2017, 373 pages).

For two years, he received training on the job as a teacher in a German grammar school and in May 1984, he took the "Staatsexamen für das Lehramt an Gymnasien", an examination for teachers. Finally, in December 1984, he was appointed Privatdozent (which means no salary) at the University of Kiel. Due to contacts from his time at Princeton and some experience in the duality of gauge theories acquired in Trieste, he became a research assistant at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Cologne in the group of Friedrich W. Hehl. From August 1984 to July 1991, these projects were supported by the DFG and the German-Israeli Research Foundation culminating in 1995 in a renowned Physics Report with Hehl, Dermott McCrea, and Yuval Ne'eman (the co-founder of the SU (3) particle classification). He returned to the Hebbelschule in Kiel for one year, but now as a lecturer. Then, from 1993 until 1994, he was filling in for an associate professor position at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, again in Cologne, and wrote a popular book on Astrophysics and Black Holes, published in 1997 by Vieweg and now available in the Springer Book Archives.

In October 1994, he accepted an invitation from Alfredo Macias of the Cosmology and Astrophysics group to stay for three weeks at the Physics Department of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, UAM (CBI-Iztapalapa Campus) in Mexico City, then directed by Salvador Cruz. This extended from September 1995 to August 1997 as a visiting professor, resulting in a full professor position at UAM Iztapalapa Campus since October 1997.

Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences (Academia Méxicana de Ciencias) since 1998. In 2008 he was nominated "Outstanding Referee" by the American Physical Society, a lifetime distinction. During several Marcel Grossmann Meetings on General Relativity, he has organized parallel sessions, most recently in 2012 in Stockholm, on "Asymptotic Safety and Symmetry Breaking in Quantum Gravity".

He has more than 180 publications, tracked by Google Scholar Citations. Among his co-authors are alumni or researchers from the Universities of Kiel, Koeln, Konstanz, León-Guanajuato, Mexico City (UAM and Cinvestav), Tel-Aviv, and most recently, Zurich. The position at UAM allows him to pursue rather exotic research interests: among them, knot wormholes, neutron stars and boson, color geometrodynamics, anomalies, axion dark matter models, soliton collisions, and topological models of gravity.

In 2022, World Scientific published the book “Modern Aspects of Relativity.”