Christian Köberl

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Christian Köberl (born February 18, 1959 in Vienna ) is an Austrian geochemist , university professor for impact research and planetary geology at the University of Vienna . From June 2010 to May 2020 he was General Director and Scientific Managing Director of the Natural History Museum Vienna .

Life

After primary school (Märzstrasse) and the Maroltinger grammar school, Christian Köberl attended the HTL for the chemical industry in Rosensteingasse. From 1978 he studied technical chemistry and teaching physics at the Vienna University of Technology, and from 1980 also astronomy at the University of Vienna . From 1981 he worked on a dissertation in the field of cosmochemistry at the University of Graz ; The doctorate in philosophy (major: astronomy, minor: chemistry) took place on May 27, 1983. During the following two years cosmochemical research projects were carried out, especially at the Institute for Analytical Chemistry at the University of Vienna. In October 1985 he was appointed university assistant at the University of Vienna, with assignment to the newly founded Institute for Geochemistry. Köberl is also a lecturer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Chair for Technical Chemistry). In 1990, Köberl completed his habilitation at the University of Vienna in the field of "Geo- and Cosmochemistry" and in the summer of 1990 was appointed a permanent university lecturer. During this time, he also worked abroad as a visiting scientist at NASA in Houston, USA (Lunar and Planetary Institute and NASA Johnson Space Center ) between 1988 and 1991. Between 1992 and 1995, there were annual research stays of several months at the Carnegie Institution of Washington (USA) on the Area of ​​isotope geochemistry, visiting professorships in 1993 at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and in 1994 at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire (USA).

In 1998 Köberl became an associate. University professor appointed at the University of Vienna. From 2006 to 2007 he was deputy head and from January 2008 to September 2010 head of the Department of Lithospheric Research at the University of Vienna. From 2007 to 2010, Köberl was also visiting research professor at the Institute for Planetary Research at the Open University in Great Britain , and since January 2008 he has been deputy head of the Geoscientific Center of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and a member of the commission for astronomy. In 2008 he was appointed professor for impact research and planetary geology at the University of Vienna; he has held the chair since 2009.

Since 2008 he has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research (FWF) in Austria, where he is a consultant for geosciences. Since 2011 he has been a member of the newly founded Academy Council of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

His research work mainly focuses on the study of meteorite craters through integrated and multidisciplinary studies (geochemistry, geology, petrology, geophysics, remote sensing etc.) on the earth and other bodies of the solar system, early processes on earth, planetary geology / planetology, isotope geochemistry, Geochronology, mass extinction and evolution, tektites , meteorite research and similar fields.

He is the author of over 450 scientific publications and has given numerous specialist lectures at international conferences and helped organize conferences. He is co-editor of the journals " Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta " and " Meteoritics & Planetary Science " and since 2009 editor of the international geological journal "Bulletin of the Geological Society of America".

Christian Köberl was General Director and Scientific Managing Director of the Natural History Museum Vienna from June 2010. On March 13, 2020, State Secretary Ulrike Lunacek presented Katrin Vohland as the successor to Christian Köberl as Scientific Managing Director and General Director of the Natural History Museum Vienna; she succeeded him in this role on June 1, 2020.

Together with Alwin Schönberger , he published the book Achtung Steinschlag! Asteroids and Meteorites: Deadly Peril and Cradle of Life , which was nominated as Science Book of the Year 2019 in the Natural Science / Technology category.

Awards

  • 1987 Awarded the Antarctica Service Medal of the United States of America .
  • 1988 Fulbright Senior Visiting Scholar, USA.
  • 1994 Appointment as Fellow of the Meteoritical Society
  • 1995 Meritorious Service Award, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
  • 1996 Start-Prize of the Federal Ministry f. Science and Research and FWF Vienna (1997–2003)
  • 1997 Novartis Prize
  • 2000 Fellow of the Geological Society of South Africa
  • 2004 Outstanding Contribution Award from the European Space Agency (ESA) (for the Rosetta spacecraft); Election to the corresponding member in Austria of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • 2006 election as a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences; Name of the asteroid (15963) Koeberl
  • 2007 Barringer Medal and Award of the Meteoritical Society
  • 2017 Cardinal Innitzer Prize

Fonts (selection)

as an author
  • Impact. Danger from space . Verlag VaBene, Vienna-Klosterneuburg 1998, 184 pp. ISBN 3-85167-074-4 .
  • Impact Stratigraphy. The Italian Record (Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences: Vol. 93). Springer Verlag, Heidelberg 2000, 364 pp. ISBN 3-540-66368-1 (together with Alessandro Montanari).
  • Attention rocks! Asteroids and meteorites: Deadly danger and cradle of life , together with Alwin Schönberger , Brandstätter Verlag, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-7106-0094-4
as editor
  • The Manson Impact Structure, Iowa. Anatomy of an Impact Crater (GSA Special Paper; 302). Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colo. 1996, 468 pp. ISBN 0-8137-2302-7 (together with Raymond R. Anderson).
  • Catastrophic Events and Mass Extinctions. Impacts and Beyond (GSA Special Paper; 356). Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colo. 2002, 746 pp. ISBN 0-8137-2356-6 (together with Kenneth MacLeod).
  • Impact Tectonics (Impact Studies; Vol. 6). Springer, Heidelberg 2005, 552 + XIX S. ISBN 3-540-24181-7 (together with Herbert Henkel).
  • Biological Processes Associated with Impact Events (Impact Studies; Vol. 8). Springer, Heidelberg 2006, 376 + XVI S. ISBN 3-540-25735-7 (together with Charles S. Cockell and Iain Gilmour).
  • Continental Scientific Drilling. A decade of progress and challenges for the future . Springer, Heidelberg 2007, 366 + X S. ISBN 978-3-540-68777-1 (together with Ulrich Harms and Mark Zoback ).
  • The Late Eocene Earth. Hothouse, icehouse, and Impacts (GSA Special Paper; 452). Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colo. 2009, 322 + VIII S. ISBN 978-0-8137-2452-2 (together with Alessandro Montanari).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Composition of the Astronomy Commission of the OeAW oeaw.ac.at, accessed on March 16, 2012
  2. ↑ Christian Köberl wienerzeitung.at, May 28, 2010, accessed on November 24, 2011
  3. ^ A top researcher as museum director derstandard.at, December 16, 2009, accessed on November 24, 2011
  4. ↑ Natural History Museum: Katrin Vohland new NHM boss. In: Wiener Zeitung . March 13, 2020, accessed March 13, 2020 .
  5. ↑ New NHM boss introduced. In: ORF.at . March 13, 2020, accessed March 13, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Public vote for Science Book of the Year begins . Article dated October 30, 2018, accessed October 30, 2018.
  7. ↑ 15963 Koeberl (1998 CY3) ssd.jpl.nasa.gov, accessed on October 25, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Köberl, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian geochemist, director of the Natural History Museum Vienna
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna