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MEMIN

DFG-Research Unit FOR-887 Experimental Impact Cratering
The MEMIN Program
(Multidisciplinary Experimental and Modeling Impact Research Network)

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Funding organisation: DFG KE732/15-1; DFG KE732/16-1; DFG KE732/17-1; DFG KE732/18-1

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Thomas Kenkmann (ALU-Freiburg)
Coordinator: Dr. Michael Poelchau (ALU-Freiburg)

Further employees of University Freiburg:

Dr. Anja Dufresne (Post-PhD student), Dr. Frank Sommer (PhD student), Elmar Buhl (PhD student), Markus Arnold (student), MIchael Rudolf (student)

Term: 2009-2013 (1. stage of sponsorship), 2013-2016 (2. stage of sponsorship)

 


Abstract:

Collisions of solid compounds are considered to be among the most fundamental processes in the solar system. The research team of MEMIN (Multidisciplinary Experimental and Modeling Impact Crater Research Network), financed by Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft, aims at analyzing the processes of high speed impacts and the formation of meteorite craters by using experimental and numerical methods.

MEMIN is a group of researchers of University Freiburg along with Fraunhofer Institute for High-Speed Dynamics Freiburg (Ernst-Mach-Institut, EMI), Berlin Museum of Natural History (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin), Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences (GeoforschungsZentrum Potsdam), TUM (Technische Universität München), University of Münster and University of California, Berkeley.