{"id":16633,"date":"2026-03-03T06:32:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T05:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/snsb.de\/?p=16633"},"modified":"2026-03-03T06:32:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T05:32:27","slug":"christian-bergemann-rieskratermuseum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/snsb.de\/en\/christian-bergemann-rieskratermuseum\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Bergemann is the new director of the RiesCraterMuseum N\u00f6rdlingen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

RiesCraterMuseum N\u00f6rdlingen<\/em>, 03.03.2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Neuer Leiter der RiesKraterMuseums in N\u00f6rdlingen: Dr. Christian Bergemann (Foto: SNSB\/RKM)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Christian Bergemann joined the Bavarian State Collections of Natural History (SNSB) on March 1st. The geoscientist will take over as scientific director of the RiesCraterMuseum N\u00f6rdlingen, one of the SNSB’s ten natural history museums. He succeeds his long-standing predecessor, Prof. Dr. Stefan H\u00f6lzl.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Christian Bergemann most recently headed a research project at Heidelberg University funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The geoscientist conducts research on minerals and rocks, particularly using modern age-dating and isotope geochemical methods. The aim of his research is to precisely place geological events such as meteorite impacts within Earth\u2019s history and to gain a better understanding of them. After completing his doctorate at the University of Geneva, his scientific career took Bergemann to the University of Heidelberg and then to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), where he coordinated a research project at the Industrial Resource Strategies think tank. Bergemann will now move to N\u00f6rdlingen with his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Christian Bergemann sees taking over as scientific director of the RiesCraterMuseum in N\u00f6rdlingen as a unique opportunity: “The N\u00f6rdlinger Ries, one of the world’s best-preserved meteorite craters, offers optimal scientific starting points for my research. In my new role as museum director, I would like to further strengthen the profile of the RiesCraterMuseum as a place of current research and scientific networking, while at the same time making the geological uniqueness of the region visible to a broad audience.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Christian Bergemann succeeds Prof. Dr. Stefan H\u00f6lzl, who retired last summer. \u201cWith Mr. Bergemann, the SNSB and our museum in N\u00f6rdlingen are gaining a young, ambitious scientist. I look forward to working with him to further expand the museum’s research focus and to his new ideas for raising the scientific profile of our entire research institution,\u201d said Prof. Dr. J\u00f6rg Overmann, Director General of the Bavarian State Natural History Collections (SNSB).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mayor David Wittner is also excited about the RiesCraterMuseum’s new director: “The RiesCraterMuseum is a very special place for our city\u2014a museum that uniquely combines history, nature, and experience, attracting visitors from all over the world to N\u00f6rdlingen. With Dr. Christian Bergemann, a proven expert is taking on this responsible task. I wish him every success in his new role and look forward to working with him.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The RiesCraterMuseum N\u00f6rdlingen<\/strong> is embedded in the museum landscape and research infrastructure of the Bavarian State Collections of Natural History. As a \u201cmuseum in the crater,\u201d it offers insights into the meteorite impact 15 million years ago, but also shows how life returned to the Ries natural area after the catastrophe. Attached to the museum is the Center for Ries Crater and Impact Research N\u00f6rdlingen (ZERIN) \u2013 a research and education center with a geological collection and isotope laboratory. At the heart of the N\u00f6rdlingen collection are the drill cores from the 1,200-meter-deep research borehole through the Ries crater from 1973 \u2013 a valuable treasure for science. Every year, numerous researchers and, as part of an ESA geological training program, astronauts visit the RiesCraterMuseum and ZERIN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact:<\/strong>
Dr. Christian Bergemann
Scientific Director
SNSB \u2013 RiesKraterMuseum N\u00f6rdlingen
Eugene-Shoemaker-Platz 1, 86720 N\u00f6rdlingen
Phone: 049 9081 84 713
E-Mail: bergemann@snsb.de<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RiesCraterMuseum N\u00f6rdlingen, 03.03.2026 Christian Bergemann joined the Bavarian State Collections of Natural History (SNSB) on March 1st. The geoscientist will take over as scientific director of the RiesCraterMuseum N\u00f6rdlingen, one of the SNSB’s ten natural history museums. He succeeds his long-standing predecessor, Prof. Dr. Stefan H\u00f6lzl. Dr. Christian Bergemann most recently headed a research project […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/snsb.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/snsb.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/snsb.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snsb.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snsb.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16633"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/snsb.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16635,"href":"https:\/\/snsb.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16633\/revisions\/16635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snsb.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/snsb.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snsb.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/snsb.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}