Stephanie C. Werner

Stephanie C. Werner (born 1974)[1] is a German geologist and planetologist, known for her work on Mars and the Arctic. She is a professor in the Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics of the University of Oslo in Norway.

Her research has included the discovery that many meteorites of Martian origin come from the Mojave impact crater on Mars,[2] and an estimate that an era of planetary migration in the solar system occurred earlier than previously thought.[3]

Education and career

Werner earned a diploma in geophysics in 1999 from the University of Kiel, and completed a doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) in 2005 at the Free University of Berlin; her dissertation was Major Aspects of the Chronostratigraphy and Geologic Evolutionary History of Mars.[4]

After postdoctoral research at the Free University Berlin and the Geological Survey of Norway, she became a researcher at the University of Oslo in 2009. In 2014 she became an associate professor there, and in 2017 a full professor.[4]

Recognition

In 2019, Werner was elected to the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[5]

Asteroid 11449 Stephwerner is named for her.[6]

References
  1. Birth year from German National Library catalog entry, retrieved 2020-03-20
  2. Bennington-Castro, Joseph (6 March 2014), "Meteorites on Earth May Be From Ancient Crater on Mars, Study Says", National Geographic
  3. Strain, Daniel (12 August 2019), "A new timeline of Earth's cataclysmic past", CU Boulder Today, University of Colorado Boulder
  4. Stephanie Werner, University of Oslo Department of Geosciences, retrieved 2020-03-20
  5. Academy Members, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, retrieved 2020-03-20
  6. "11449 Stephwerner (1979 QP)", JPL Small-Body Database, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, retrieved 2020-03-20
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