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:
- Integration of geoscientific observations into 3-D models of the subsurface
- Simulation of coupled thermal-hydraulic-mechanical processes
- Structure of subjacent crust and lithosphere
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
2008: Head of Section 4.4: Sedimentary Basin Analysis at GFZ Potsdam
2001 – 2008: Researcher at GFZ Potsdam in the sections "Organic Geochemistry" and "Modelling of Geoprocesses ". Research topic: intracontinental northern European basins, passive continental margins of the Atlantic Ocean in Norway and South Africa, salt dynamics
2000: Research assistant professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, within the framework of the PACE TMR-network. Research topic: Basement structures in the Danish North Sea
1999 – 2000: Researcher at GFZ Potsdam, section "Modelling of Geoprocesses ", research: the intracontinental basins of North Central Europe. Preparation of the DFG priority programme Sedimentary Basin Dynamics
1997 – 2000: Postdoc at GFZ Potsdam, geoprocess modelling group, within the framework of the German Research Foundation (DFG) joint project "Complementary studies to DEKORP BASIN96"
1994 – 1997: PhD student at the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) Potsdam, Germany / Freie Universität (FU) Berlin; worked on creating a 3-D structural model of the North German Basin
1993: Project leader at EXALYT Berlin: projects in the field of contamination clean-up of groundwater and soil
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:
- Member of Nationales Bgleitgremium since 2020
- Member of Academia Europeana since 2018
- Member of DFG Review Board 314-01 Geology, Paleontology 2016-2024
- Member in working group of the German academies "Forschung für ein Endlager"
- Deputy president DGGV 2018-2024
- Member Advisory Board Geothermie-Allianz Bayern
- Member of the International Peer Review Panel for FCT Portugal 2024-2025
- Member Review Committee DeepNL of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) since 2021
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Secretary General of the International Lithosphere Program, 2013-2021
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Member of the International Peer Review Panel of the Danish Council for Independent Research | Natural Science 2013-2015
Co-Speaker DFG-IRTG StRATEGY/CONICET (2018 – 2023)
Member Steering Committee des DFG priority programs: SPP SAMPLE ; SPP 4D-MB (2015 – 2023)
- Deputy president division Tectonics and Structural Geology of EGU, 2015-2019
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Member of the Programme Committee division Geodynamics of EGU (2012-2015)
- Member of the editorial board of Tectonophysics, and of Basin Research,2006-2019
- Member Advisory Board DVGeo (Dachverein der Geowissenschaften in Deutschland) (2018 – 2024)
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Member of American Geophysical Union (AGU), European Geosciences Union (EGU), German Geological Society (DGGV), German Geophysical Society (DGG)
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Co-coordinator of the Task Force Sedimentary Basins, International Lithosphere Programme, (2005-2015)
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