Autor/-in: Thomas Kenkmann

Thomas Kenkmann studied geology and paleontology at the University of Cologne and completed his dissertation in 1997 at the Freie Universität Berlin. Since 2010 he has been Professor of Geology and Structural Geology at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Thomas Kenkmann and his working group are investigating the structure and deformation inventory of impact craters on Earth and other planetary bodies at scales ranging from satellite imagery to micrometers. Thomas is a passionate field geologist, who has studied more than 40 terrestrial impact craters worldwide, and mapped many of them geologically, among them Upheaval Dome in the United States, Jebel Waqf as Suwwan in Jordan, Serra da Cangalha in Brazil, and Matt Wilson, and Gosses Bluff in Australia. He is responsible for a number of crater discoveries and confirmations such as Saqqar in Saudi Arabia, the Douglas crater strewn field in the United States, or Ramgarh in India. In 2018 he received the Barringer Medal and Award of the Meteoritical Society for his key contributions to the area of impact crater research.