Susan Kieffer

Susan Elizabeth Werner Kieffer ( born November 17, 1942 in Warren, Pennsylvania) is an American geologist, geophysicist and Planetologin. She is professor of geology and physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign.

Kieffer studied at Allegheny College (Bachelor 1964) and at Caltech with a Master 's degree in 1967 and a PhD in Planetary Science in 1971. As a post - doctoral student, she was at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she 1973 Assistant Professor and later Associate Professor been. From 1978 to 1990 she was with the United States Geological Survey in Flagstaff, where she was a visiting professor at Caltech in 1982. From 1989 she was a professor at Arizona State University and from 1993 to 1995 at the University of British Columbia.

It dealt with the geophysical hydrodynamics of volcanoes, geysers and rivers, meteorite impacts and their related shock wave metamorphosis and Thermodynamics of minerals. Your ( including experimental) studies of the mechanisms of volcanic eruptions, it extended also to those in the solar system ( Moon Enceladus ). Furthermore, it is concerned with solar physics.

In 1996 she founded her own consulting firm Kieffer & Woo, from 2000 SW Kieffer Science Consulting. With Eugene Shoemaker, she wrote a geological guide to the Meteor Crater (1974).

In 1992, she received the Arthur L. Day Medal. In 1995 she was MacArthur Fellow. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is a member of the Geological Society of America, the American Geophysical Union and the Mineralogical Society of America. From 1977 to 1979 she was Sloan Fellow. She is an honorary Doctor of Allegheny College.

She has been married since 1966 and has one child.

Publications

• The Dynamics of Disaster, WW Norton & Co, New York, 2013, ISBN 0-393-08095-1.