Function and Responsibilities:

Director of Department 4 Geosystems at GFZ Potsdam Head of section 4.5 Subsurface process modelling at GFZ Potsdam Professor for Sedimentary Basins and Georesources at TU Berlin
Faculty VI -Planning  Building Environment, Institute of Applied Geosciences

Research Interests:

• Digital Twins of the subsurface in sedimentary basins, continental interiors and orogens

• Geodynamics and deformation of sedimentary basins on various scales

• Geoenergy and utilization of the subsurface

• Integration of geoscientific observations into 3-D models of the subsurface

• Simulation of coupled thermal-hydraulic-mechanical processes

• Thermal field

• Structure of subjacent crust and lithosphere

• Gravity and isostasy

• Interpretation of seismic data

• Structural and subsidence analysis

• Salt dynamics

  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0426-8269

Career:

2024                   Professorship Sedimentary Basins and Georesources at TU Berlin

2024                    Head of Section Subsurface Process Modelling

2019                     Director Department Geosystems

2016                     Director Department Geotechnologies

                             Head of Section  Basin Modelling

2014                     Director Department Chemistry of the Earth

2013:                    Professorship Sedimentary Basin Analysis at RWTH Aachen University

Education:

1986 -1993          Study of Geology, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen and Technische Universität Berlin. Diploma Thesis (in German): Structural analysis of the Gela-Nappe, Afro-European zone of convergence, Ramacca, Sicily. Förderung durch Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

1994 -1997          Doctorate in Geosciences, Freie Universität Berlin and GFZ Potsdam: 3D Structural modelling of the Northeast German Basin considering crustal models

2008-2009 Helmholtz Management Academy (Malik Management Zentrum St. Gallen)

Projects:

Ongoing projects:

• EU Marie Curie doctoral network INITIATE
  
• SPP ICDP: Deformation mechanisms along the Main Marmara Fault DeMMaF
• SPP 2017: 4D Mountainbuilding: DEFORM Deformation patterns in relation to the deep configuration of the lithosphere of the Alps and their forelands
• SPP 2017: 4D Mountainbuilding: INTEGRATE: Integrated 3D modeling of the Alps and their forelands
• Simulation of coupled processes in subsurface utilization as part of Helmholtz project Earth System Modelling
  
• ITGR StRATEGY: Evolution of the Argentine Andean forland basin
  
• Hessen 3D 2.0: Geothermal Potential of Hesse
• 3D thermal models of the North German Basin at different scales
  
• Helmholtz: Energy Systems 2050: 3D Structure and thermal field of Berlin
• Helmhotz ESM: Earth System Modelling
  
• 3D Marmara: lithosphere-scale model of the Marmara Sea
• 3D Lithosphere scale mode of the North Atlantic and adjacent continental margins
• Lithospere structre of the Caribbean
  

Completed projects:

• 3D lithospheric model of the Barents -Kara Sea
• EU-Project IMAGE: Thermal models of the Upper Rheingraben
• 3D lithospheric model and thermal field of the German Molasse Basin
• SPP 1375 SAMPLE – South Atlantic Margin Processes and Links with onshore Evolution: 3D lithosphere-scale modelling of the South Atlantic passive continental margins with focus on the South African and Argentine segments
• GeoEn – BMBF-collaborative project: Geoenergy from unconventional resources (Program Spitzenforschung in den Neuen Ländern)
  
• Helmholtz Portfolio-Project Geoenergy: Coupled thermo-hydraulic- mechanical simulations
  
• Südafrikanischer Kontinentalrand  (INKABA ye'AFRICA)
• European Science Foundation (ESF) EUROCORES EUROMARGINS – Norwegian continental margin
• DFG Priority Programme 1135: Palaeostress analysis in the Central European Basin System (CEBS)
• DFG Priority Programme 1135: 3-D structural modelling and basin analysis of the CEBS
• DFG Priority Programme 1135: Mesozoic fault systems
• MOM – Methane on the move
• GASH: Gas Shale in Europe
• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) PROCOPE, The structural inheritance of the Boulonnais
• PACE TMR network: Paleozoic Amalgamation of Central Europe
  
• EUROPROBE projects TESZ and GEORIFT
• DFG collaborative project Acompanying research to DEKORP NE Germany

Research Boards and Committees:

Awards:

2022 Award for Excellence in Research of the Association of Women Geoscientists

2020 elected by the German Government as a member of the National Citizens’ Oversight Committee “Nationales Begleitgremium” assisting the Search for a High-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Site.

2018 Member Academia Europea
2012 Member AcademiaNet

1990-1992 Grant Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes