ProfessorGareth Collins
Professor of Planetary Science
Department of Earth Science & Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
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- Professor of Planetary ScienceDepartment of Earth Science & Engineering - Faculty of Engineering
- 020 7594 1518 (Work)
- 4.83, Royal School of Mines, South Kensington Campus, United Kingdom
BIO
Impact is a fundamental solar system process: it builds planets from dust, it shapes planetary surfaces, it causes mass extinction and it threatens the survival of humankind. My research explores the many consequences of impacts in the solar system through the development and application of numerical impact models.
Biography
2018- Professor, Imperial College London
2014-2018 Reader, Imperial College London
2011-2014 Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London
2007-2012 NERC Advanced Research Fellow, Imperial College London
2004-2007 NERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow (EMS), Imperial College London
2002-2004 Research Associate, Lunar and Planetary Lab., University of Arizona
1998-2002 PhD Geology (Numerical Modelling of Large Impact Crater Collapse), Imperial College London
1995-1998 BSc Geophysics (with Mathematics), University of Liverpool
Recent Measures of Esteem
2023 - Asteroid (31358) Garethcollins
2022 - Barringer Medal of the Meteoritical Society
2019 - ESA Hera mission Impact Working Group Member
2018 - Co-Investigator - NASA InSight Mission
2017 - Plenary Talk – Hypervelocity Impact Symposium (Univ. of Kent, Canterbury)
2017 - APS Meeting on Shock Physics of Condensed Matter (St. Louis, MO, USA)
2016- NASA DART Investigation Team Member
2014-2020 Associate Editor JGR Planets
2013 Invited talk Herdman Society Symposium, University of Liverpool
2007-12 NERC Advanced Research Fellowship
2012 Invited talk AGU Fall Meeting
2011 Scientific committee for the "Bombardment II" workshop
2010 Invited talk European Planetary Science Conference, Rome.
2004-7 NERC Research Fellowship
2007 Scientific committee for the "Bridging the Gap II" impact cratering workshop
2007 Invited talk British Geophysical Association
Biography
2018- Professor, Imperial College London
2014-2018 Reader, Imperial College London
2011-2014 Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London
2007-2012 NERC Advanced Research Fellow, Imperial College London
2004-2007 NERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow (EMS), Imperial College London
2002-2004 Research Associate, Lunar and Planetary Lab., University of Arizona
1998-2002 PhD Geology (Numerical Modelling of Large Impact Crater Collapse), Imperial College London
1995-1998 BSc Geophysics (with Mathematics), University of Liverpool
Recent Measures of Esteem
2023 - Asteroid (31358) Garethcollins
2022 - Barringer Medal of the Meteoritical Society
2019 - ESA Hera mission Impact Working Group Member
2018 - Co-Investigator - NASA InSight Mission
2017 - Plenary Talk – Hypervelocity Impact Symposium (Univ. of Kent, Canterbury)
2017 - APS Meeting on Shock Physics of Condensed Matter (St. Louis, MO, USA)
2016- NASA DART Investigation Team Member
2014-2020 Associate Editor JGR Planets
2013 Invited talk Herdman Society Symposium, University of Liverpool
2007-12 NERC Advanced Research Fellowship
2012 Invited talk AGU Fall Meeting
2011 Scientific committee for the "Bombardment II" workshop
2010 Invited talk European Planetary Science Conference, Rome.
2004-7 NERC Research Fellowship
2007 Scientific committee for the "Bridging the Gap II" impact cratering workshop
2007 Invited talk British Geophysical Association
FACULTY
- Faculty of Engineering
POSITION NAME
- Professor of Planetary Science