Christian Koeberl

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Full Name	Christian Koeberl
Occupation	University Teacher
Date Of Birth	Feb 18, 1959(1959-02-18)
Age	65
Birthplace	Vienna
Country	Austria
Horoscope	Aquarius

Christian Koeberl Biography

Christian Koeberl is one of the most popular and richest University Teacher who was born on February 18, 1959 in Vienna, Austria. Koberl was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1959, Koberl attended a technical high school that specialized in chemistry. He then from 1978, he was studying physics and chemistry in the Technical University of Vienna, in addition to Astronomy in the University of Vienna. The year 1983 was the time he concluded the PhD research at the University of Graz, Austria and was awarded a doctoral dissertation on the field of cosmochemistry. In 1985, he joined department of the recently established Institute of Geochemistry at the University of Vienna, becoming an assistant professor. The year 1988 saw him was a part of in the Lunar and Planetary Institute (Houston, TX, USA) as well as The NASA Johnson Space Center for one year as an Fulbright Scholar. The following year, he was awarded additional research assignments in these universities. He was awarded an “Habilitation” in Geo- and Cosmochemistry at the University of Vienna and was given tenure as an associate professor.

Between 1992 and 1995, Koeberl spent a few months of each year in the geochemistry laboratory for isotopes at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution in Washington, DC, USA, to study the geochemistry of osmium isotopes. In 1993 Koeberl was a visiting faculty member of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, and as of 1994, an guest instructor of the Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA, where he continued as an adjunct professor from 1994 until 2000.

In 2004, Koeberl was elected corresponding member, and in 2006 full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In 2006, an asteroid was named after Köberl. In 2007, he received the Barringer Medal of the Meteoritical Society, its highest award for research related to impact cratering studies. From 2007 to 2010, Köberl served as Visiting Research Professor at the Department of Earth Sciences and the Planetary and Space Science Research Institute, Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom. From 2008 until 2010, he was head of the Department of Lithospheric Research, one of the earth science departments at the University of Vienna.

From March 2009,Koeberl was appointed full professor of impact research and planetary geology at the University of Vienna. In December 2009, he was appointed director general of Vienna’s Natural History Museum, a post that he took up in June 2010. In addition to remaining on the faculty of the University of Vienna, he is also a member of the board of the Austrian Science Fund, and is editor of the Bulletin of the Geological Society of America and co-editor of the journals Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta and Meteoritics & Planetary Science.

Koberl has edited or written 15 books, and is the writer of more than 400 peer-reviewed research papers. Koberl has organized a number of international research conferences, such as the Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society in 1989 in Vienna, Austria; the gathering of Catastrophic Events & Mass Extinctions: Impacts and Beyond, in 2000, in Vienna, Austria; Geological Society of America Field Forum on “Bolide Impacts on Wet Targets” in Nevada and Utah, USA; and the Geological Society of America Penrose Conference on “Hothouse, Icehouse, and Impacts: The Late Eocene Earth” in Monte Conero in Italy. As the director for the Natural History Museum in Vienna, Koberl is planning to enhance the quality and the visibility of the museum’s research as well as to increase the range and more special exhibits that focus on modern science, as well as to update and renovate the permanent exhibits.

Christian Koeberl Net Worth

Christian Koeberl is one of the richest University Teacher from Austria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Christian Koeberl 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Christian Koberl (born February 18 1959 Vienna) is an associate professor in impact research and planet geology at the University of Vienna, Austria and director general of the Natural History Museum in Vienna. Koberl is most well- known for his work on meteorite impact and craters.

Other research interests include studies of the terrestrial mass extinction Horizons (including strata from the later Eocene K-Pg, Tr -J and P-Tr strata) of meteorites as well as lunar rock, Antarctic meteorite studies in the field as well as snowball earth and many other geochemistry-related issues. He was a part of or led numerous field trips which included Antarctica in 1986/7, as well as desert regions of Namibia, South Africa, Egypt, Libya, Mauritania and Mongolia as well as to many impact craters throughout the world. He was a part of several documentaries on impact-related subjects. Between 1998 and 2003, He was the director and chair for the European Science Foundation “Impact” program. He also is part of the scientific team for the Midas research project on the Rosetta comet probe.

His other major research topic involves the determination of extraterrestrial components in impact-related rocks. In addition, Köberl has spent decades in studying tektites, and his work was important in reaching the conclusion that these are a rare form of terrestrial glasses that form in the earliest phases of crater formation. He has been the principal investigator of several International Continental Scientific Drilling Program (ICDP) drilling projects: at the Bosumtwi impact crater in Ghana in 2004, the Chesapeake Bay crater drilling project in the USA in 2005/6, the El’gygytgyn crater project in the Russian Arctic in 2009, and the planned Songliao Basin drilling project in China.

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