Thomas Stephan's Curriculum Vitae

Thomas Stephan

Research Professor
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 2017 Research Professor
Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago, USA
2013–2017 Senior Scientist
Department of the Geophysical Sciences, The University of Chicago, USA
since 2010 Research Associate in Meteoritics at The Field Museum, Chicago
2007–2011 Guest Appointee at Argonne National Laboratory
2007–2013 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

2021–2023 Member of the NASA Extraterrrestrial Materials Analysis Group (ExMAG) – Microparticle subcommittee
2021 Member of the organizing committee and the program committee for the 84th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society in Chicago, IL, USA
since 2019 Member of the Jessberger Award Committee of the Meteoritical Society
2018–2020 Member of the NASA Curation and Analysis Planning Team for Extraterrestrial Materials (CAPTEM) – Stardust subcommittee
since 2010 Member of various NASA review panels
2003 Member of the organizing committee and the program committee for the 66th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society in Münster, Germany

2013 NASA Group Achievement Award (with Stardust Interstellar Preliminary Examination Team)

2001–2008 various stays as guest scientist 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