Christian Koeberl is professor emeritus in the Department of Lithospheric Research at University of Vienna.
Christian Koeberl is a geochemist and full professor (emeritus) of impact research and planetary geology, University of Vienna, full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and was director general of the Natural History Museum Vienna. His has published over 500 peer-reviewed scientific papers, many of them on impact craters, meteorites, early Earth, and planetary studies; asteroid 15963 is named in his honor "Koeberl." He was science editor of the GSA Bulletin (2009–2015), science editor for GSA books (2016–2023), a GSA Fellow, and is recipient of the Distinguished Service Award of the Geological Society of America (2019).