Staff

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 from the scale of the lithosphere to the scale of georeservoirs

• Geoenergy and utilization of the subsurface

• Urban transformation under climate change adding the subsurface as a critical dimension of urban resilience (blue green red infrastructures)

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

• Simulation of coupled thermal-hydraulic-mechanical processes

• Thermal field

• Structure of crust and lithosphere

• Gravity and isostasy

• 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: geodynamics of the                               Andes, the Eastern Agean and the Maramara Sea region; Climate-                                 subsurface interactions, effects of climate change to groundwater                                   dynamics, urban transformation with energy and water supply systems for                       the cities of the future

2019             Director Department Geosystems

2016-2019    Director Department Geotechnologies

2016-2024    Head of Section  Basin Modelling: relationship heterogenous density,                             thermal and rheological configuration and seismicity, adding the upper                             mantle below the crust: North Atlantic margins, Alps and their forland                               basins, Andes and their foreland basinss,  Marmara Sea and North                                 Anatolian Fault, Carribbean Sea, Geothermal potential Brandenburg and                         Berlin,  Upper Rhine Graben,

2014-2016    Director Department Chemistry of the Earth

2013-2024    Professorship Sedimentary Basin Analysis at RWTH Aachen University

2008-2016    Head of Section 4.4: Sedimentary Basin Analysis at GFZ Potsdam: North                       and South Atlantic margins, Molasse Basin, Transilvanian Basin,                                     MacKenzie Basin,  Geothermal potential Brandenburg and Berlin, Upper                         Rhine Graben, Marmara Sea and North Anatolian Fault

2000–2008:  Researcher at GFZ Potsdam: Central European Basin System, North                             Atlantic continental margins

2000             Research assistant professor at the University of Copenhagen: Basement                       structure of Danish North Sea

1997–2000:  Postdoc at GFZ Potsdam in the frame of DEKORP BASIN 96

1994–1997:  PhD student at the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ)                              Potsdam, Germany / Freie Universität (FU) Berlin: 3D stuctural, gravity                            and thermal modelling of the NE German Basin and its underlying crust

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.                                 Supported by grant of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

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

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

Projects:

Ongoing projects:

• EU Marie Curie doctoral network  Climate Tectonics Interactions INITIATE 
• Seismicity Distribution in the Central Andes
• Climate-Driven Forces on Groundwater Dynamics
• SOLVE HydroConnect HydroPredict: Securing Terrestrial Water Cycles: the Helmholtz SOlution Lab Elbe RiVEer Basin
• 3D thermal models of the North German Basin at different scales
  

Completed projects:

• 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 lithospheric model of the Barents -Kara Sea
• EU-Project IMAGE: Thermal models of the Upper Rheingraben
• Helmholtz: Energy Systems 2050: 3D Structure and thermal field of Berlin
• Helmholtz 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
• 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