Thomas Stephan's Curriculum Vitae

Thomas Stephan

Senior Research Associate
The University of Chicago Department of the Geophysical Sciences 5734 South Ellis Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 USA
Office: HGS 121
Phone: Fax: E-Mail:	+1-773-702-8856 +1-773-702-9505 tstephan "at "uchicago "dot" edu

2000 Habilitation, venia legendi in Planetology
Department of Geosciences, University of Münster, Germany
Title of Thesis: TOF-SIMS in Cosmochemistry [PDF]
1989 Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.) in Physics
Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics / University of Heidelberg, Germany
Advisor: Prof. E. K. Jessberger
Title of Thesis: Der Einfluß von Impaktprozessen auf das K-Ar System
1987 Physics Diploma
Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics / University of Heidelberg, Germany
Advisor: Prof. E. K. Jessberger
Title of Thesis: ⁴⁰Ar-³⁹Ar Altersbestimmung antarktischer Meteorite
1982–1987 Study of Physics and Astronomy
University of Heidelberg, Germany
1982 Abitur (school leaving examination)
Justus-Liebig-Schule, Darmstadt, Germany

since 2010 Research Associate in Meteoritics at The Field Museum, Chicago
since 2007 Guest Appointee at Argonne National Laboratory
since 2007 Senior Research Associate
Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago, USA
04/2006–07/2006 Substitute professorship Geological Planetology
Institute for Planetology, University of Münster, Germany
10/2003–03/2005 Managing director of the Institute for Planetology
University of Münster, Germany
2000–2007 Junior faculty position (Hochschuldozent)
Institute for Planetology, University of Münster, Germany
1996–2000 Senior research scientist
Institute for Planetology, University of Münster, Germany
1993–1996 Research scientist
Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany
1990–1993 Research scientist
Physics Institute and Institute for Planetology, University of Münster, Germany
1989–1990 Research scientist
Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany

since 2001 regularly guest at the Laboratory for Space Sciences, Washington University, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA
03/1994–05/1994 guest scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute and the NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, USA