Dr. Gordon "Oz" Osinski is a Professor and the NSERC/MDA/CSA/CEMI Industrial Research Chair in Earth and Space Exploration in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Western Ontario (Western), Canada. He holds a PhD from the University of New Brunswick (2004) and a BSc (Hons) from the University of St. Andrews (1999), Scotland, both in Geology. Dr. Osinski's research interests focus is on understanding impact cratering as a planetary geological process, on the Earth, Moon and Mars. He has conducted fieldwork at dozens of impact craters on four continents over the past 20 years. He has made substantial contributions to understanding the impact cratering process, including shock melting and metamorphism, impact ejecta emplacement, complex crater formation, and impact-generated hydrothermal systems.

Dr. Osinski has published over 185 papers in peer-reviewed journals and special papers and has given over 110 conference presentations. He has received numerous awards for this research, including the Nier Prize of the Meteoritical Society (2009), the Young Scientist Medal of the Mineralogical Association of Canada (2015), and the Florence Bucke Award from Western (2015). Most recently, he was awarded the prestigious W. W. Hutchison Medal of the Geological Association of Canada and was named a Faculty Scholar at Western, both in 2018. Dr. Osinski is also the lead for Impact Earth, a unique initiative that seels to engage researchers and the public alike in the study of meteorite impacts, fireballs and meteorites.