Prof. Dr. Thomas Kenkmann

geb. am 27.12.1966 in Iserlohn

Education 1988-1994 Study of Geology/Paleontology at Univ. of Cologne, Germany 1994 Diploma in Geology (passed with distinction) 1997 Dissertation at Free University Berlin. (passed with distinction) 2003 Habilitation at Free University Berlin, venia legendi for Geology. Work experience 2017 Visiting scientist Curtin University Perth, Australia 2013-2017 Vice dean Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, ALU 2010-2013 Dean of student affairs Geosciences, ALU Freiburg since 2010 Chair of Geology and Structural Geology ALU Freiburg 2009-2017 Speaker of DFG-research group FOR-887 MEMIN 2007-2010 Head of ZERIN (Center for Ries- and Impact research Nördlingen) 2003-2010 Associate professor (Privatdozent) at the Free University Berlin 2001-2010 Staff scientist and curator Museum of Natural History Berlin 1998-2001 Scientific assistant at the Institute of Mineralogy, Berlin Museum of Natural History 1997-1998 Post-doctoral candidate at GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam 1994-1997 Ph.D student at the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam

Hauptforschungsgebiete

Impact cratering in nature and experiment, short-term kinematics and dynamics, structural geology, planetology, deformation mechanisms, shock metamorphism, microstructures, geohazards

Wichtige Publikationen

Hergarten, S. & Kenkmann, T. (2015): The number of impact craters on Earth: Any room for further discoveries? Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 425, 187-192. Kenkmann, T., Poelchau, M.H. & Wulf, G. (2014): Review Article: Structural geology of impact craters. Journal of Structural Geology 62, 156-182. Kenkmann, T., Deutsch, A., Thoma, K.,& Poelchau, M. (2013): The MEMIN research unit: Experimental impact cratering. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, MEMIN special issue. Kenkmann, T., Wünnemann, K., Deutsch, A., Poelchau, M. H., Schäfer, F. & Thoma , K. (2011): Impact cratering in sandstone: the MEMIN pilot study on the effect of pore water. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 46, 890-902. Poelchau, M. H. & Kenkmann, T. (2011): Feather features: A low-shock-pressure indicator in quartz. J. Geophys. Res. 116, B02201. doi: 10.1029/2010JB007803. Kenkmann, T. & Poelchau, M. H. (2009): Low-angle collision with Earth: the elliptical impact crater Matt Wilson, NT, Australia. Geology 37(5) 459–462. Gohn, G. S., Koeberl, C., Miller, K. G., Reimold, W. U., Browning, J. V., Cockell,C. S., Horton, J. W., Kenkmann, T., Kulpecz, A. A., Ppwars, D. S., Sanford, W. E. & Voytek, M. A. (2008): Deep Drilling into the Chesapeake Bay Impact Structure. Science 320, 1740 – 1745. Kenkmann, T., Jahn, A., Scherler, D. & Ivanov, B.A. (2005): Structure and formation of a central uplift: a case study at the Upheaval Dome impact crater, Utah. In: Kenkmann, T., Hörz, F. & Deutsch, A. (eds.) "Large Meteorite Impacts III". Geological Society of America Special Paper 384, 85-115. Kenkmann, T. (2002): Folding within seconds. Geology 30(3), 231-234. Kenkmann, T. & Dresen, G. (2002): Dislocation microstructure and phase distribution in a lower crustal shear zone – an example from the Ivrea-Zone, Italy. International Journal of Geoscience 91, 445-458. Kenkmann, T., Hornemann, U. & Stöffler, D. (2000): Experimental generation of shock-induced pseudotachylites. Meteoritics and Planetary Science 35, 1275-1290.

Kontaktaufnahme

Email: thomas.kenkmann@geologie.uni-freiburg.de

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