NEO-MAPP Role:
Kai Wünnemann is the head of the department “Impact and Meteorite Research” and deputy head of the science program “Evolution and Geoprocesses” at MfN, where the project will be located and will be responsible for the modeling work to be conducted in WP3. He is one of the core developers of the shock physics code iSALE, suggested as one of the key modelling tools in the proposed project, with more than 20 years of experience in the modelling of hypervelocity impact processes. He has published more than 60 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and is the author of more than 250 contributions at international conferences on meteorite impact research. He is currently PI of two ongoing projects dealing with impact cratering research and was PI or co-I in more than 10 national and international research projects financed by national and international funding organisations. He has 20 years of experience in project management.