Postdoctoral Fellow
Lunar and Planetary Institute

wittmann@lpi.usra.edu

Professional Background

2011 LPI Visiting Scientist

2008  Postdoc with Dr. Kring at the LPI, Houston

2007  Postdoc with Prof. Reimold at the Museum of Natural History Berlin

2006  PhD, Humboldt University Berlin:
     “Formation and emplacement of impactites from drill core Yaxcopoil-1, Chicxulub crater, Mexico”

2002–2005  Research Assistant with Dr. Kenkmann at the Museum of Natural History Berlin

2001  Diplom (M.S.), University of Erlangen-Nürnberg:
     "Geological Mapping, Petrography and Geochemistry of Ultramafics from Val Strona di Omegna
      (Ivrea Zone), Northern Italy"

Current Research Projects

Petrology of Ordinary Chondrite Impact Melts

Lunar Impact Melts in collaboration with the NASA Lunar Science Institute

Fluidization of the ejecta blanket of the Ries crater, Germany

Impactites of El’gygytgyn crater, Chukotka, Siberia

Student Supervision

2010     Assisted supervision of 24 graduate and post-graduate students at the Center for Lunar Science and                   Exploration’s Meteor Crater Field Camp

2010     LPI Summer Intern Program Co-Supervisor of William M. Vaughan, University of Chicago.

2009     LPI Summer Intern Program Supervisor of Laura Malone, University of New Brunswick

2008     LPI Summer Intern Program Assistant Supervisor of Elizabeth A. Frank, Rensselaer Polytechnic           Institute, Ana Cernok, University of Vienna, and Emily K. Smith, Georgia Institute of Technology

Invited Lectures

Seminar talk “Impact cratering on the H-chondrite parent asteroid” at the Department of Geology of the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, Canada, 2009.

Invited Lecture for the Network on Impact Research workshop and excursion in Gol, Norway: “Formation and Emplacement of Impactites in Large Terrestrial Impact Structures”, 2009

Scientific Seminar at the USGS National Center in Reston, VA.: “Petrological comparison of suevite-like rocks from the Chicxulub and Chesapeake Bay impact structures”, 2008

Scientific Colloquium at the Federal Agency for Geosciences and Natural Resources in Berlin: “Impactite petrography on a drill core through the Chicxulub impact crater”, 2006

Seminar of the Friends and Supporters of the Museum of Natural History, Berlin: “Geology of the lower continental crust – the Ivrea Zone (Southern Alps)”, 2005

Institute of Geophysics of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexcio City: “Impact-induced dike lithologies in drill core Yaxcopoil-1 (Chicxulub Impact structure, Mexico)”, 2004

Publications

• Papers

• Abstracts

Last updated
August 1, 2011