Inhaltsbereich
Dr. Stephan V. Sobolev
Helmholtz Centre PotsdamGFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Head of Section 2.5, Geodynamic Modelling
Heinrich-Mann-Allee 18/19, HMA 18/19 501
D-14473 Potsdam
Phone: +49 331 288 1940
Fax: +49 331 288 1938
Mail: stephan.sobolev@gfz-potsdam.de
Scientific interests:
I am interested in processes in the crust and mantle controlling physical state, composition and dynamics of the lithosphere-asthenosphere system. Of particularly interest for me are deformation processes at plate boundaries and mantle plumes. To study those we develop and employ methods of coupled thermo-mechanical and petrophysical modelling as well as methods of integrative interpretation of geophysical observations in terms of composition and temperature. These studies are the focus of the Section 2.5 Geodynamic modeling. We have also developed numerical models of generation and propagation of the Sumatra Tsunami of 26.12.2004 and suggested "GPS-Shield" concept for the Early Tsunami Warning.
Projects:
Principal Investigator of the following projects
Running projects
- Project “Combining global and lithospheric-scale thermomechanical models of continental break-up in South Atlantic” within the framework of the SAMPLE (South Atlantic Margin Processes and Links with onshore Evolution) is the Priority Program 1375, funded by the DFG
- Thermomechanical and surface process modeling within the framework of the "Tien Shan - Pamir Geodynamic Program" (TIPAGE) funded by the DFG
- Geodynamic modelling of the Dead SeaBasin- subproject of the DESIRE project
- Thermomechanical modelling of the San Andreas fault system in the framework of the ICDP Project
- Source modelling within German Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System GITEWS
- Thermal and compositional structure of the continental lithosphere in the Central Andes- subproject G1 of the SFB 267
- Controls on lithospheric deformation, erosion and plateau formation in the Central Andes inferred from thermomechanical modelling -subproject G2 of the SFB 267
- Integrative interpretation and geodynamic modelling of the Dead Sea Transform- subproject of the DESERT project
Career:
| Since November 2007 | Head of the Section 2.5 "Geodynamic Modeling" at GFZ Potsdam |
| Since July 1997 | Senior Research Scientist at the GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam |
| 1996-1997 |
Visiting Professor at the Institut de Physique du Globe, University of Strasbourg, France |
| 1991-1995 |
Research scientist at the Geophysical Institute, Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany (1992-1993 - Al. v. Humboldt foundation research fellow) |
| 1990-1996 |
Head of the research department on Petrophysical Modeling, at Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Moscow, USSR (1991-1996 on leave) |
| 1976-1990 |
Research fellow, Senior research fellow at Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Moscow, USSR |
Experience:
| Ph.D. (Candidate Science in Physics and Mathematics), 1980 |
Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth, Moscow, Russia |
| MS (honored diploma thesis) 1976 | Physics, Geophysics, Novosibirsk State University, Russia |
| University course 1971-1976 | Novosibirsk State University, Russia |
Awards:
Medal of the Academy of Science of the USSR for the best young scientist research in 1987
Al. v. Humboldt Research Fellowship 1992
GFZ Forschungspreis 2004