Dr. Ludovic Ferrière, born in 1982, is a French geologist, expert on meteorites and impact craters. He developed an early interest in rocks and minerals, studied in a number of French and Canadian Universities before to obtain a Master in Planetology at the University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris (France). He completed his PhD thesis at the University of Vienna (Austria) in 2009, before to move again to Canada for his postdoctoral researches at the University of Western Ontario. Dr. Ferrière was then working at the Natural History Museum Vienna (Austria) from 2011 until early 2024, first as curator of the rock collections and then as chief curator of the prestigious meteorite collection and of the impactite collection.

Currently, Dr. Ferrière is curator of geology and meteorites at the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi. 

Dr. Ferrière has confirmed, together with colleagues, five impact craters (i.e., Keurusselkä in Finland, Luizi in the DRCongo, Hummeln in Sweden, Yallalie in Australia, and Nova Colinas in Brazil) and has also discovered and classified a number of meteorites. 
He is author of 120 peer-reviewed scientific papers published in international journals, over 250 abstracts presented at international conferences, and of a book on meteorites.