Function and Responsibilities:

• Director for scientific programme of GFZ in PoF-IV
• Director of Department 2 Geophysics
• Head of Section 2.7 Near-surface Geophysics
• Professor for Geophysics with focus Seismics at TU Berlin

Research Interests:

• Seismic methods and technical developments in applied geophysics
• Geophysical imaging of deformation and mass transport
• Sub-/seismic deformation analysis
• Geodynamic interpretation

Career:

> 2016                GFZ, Potsdam: Head of Section Near-surface Geophysics
2013-2015          LIAG, Hannover: Vice Director
2007-2015          LIAG, Hannover: Head of Section Seismics~Gravimetry~Magnetics
2002-2007          GFZ Potsdam: senior scientist in section Lithosphere Dynamics
1997-2001          GFZ Potsdam: leadership of project group Northgerman Basin
1995-1997          GFZ Potsdam: post-doc, project management within DEKORP
1993                   Texas A&M University: physical properties specialist (ODP leg 149)
1992-1995          GEOMAR Kiel: PhD-student in Geodynamics division
1991                   AWI, Bremerhaven + GTZ, Frankfurt: scientific program in Brasil
1988-1991          Institute for Geophysics, Kiel: student helper in geophysics
1985                   BSH, Hamburg: student helper in oceanography

Education:

2007      Professorship in Geophysics with focus Seismics at TU Berlin
1995      PhD in geophysics at GEOMAR and Kiel University
1991      Diploma in geophysics, Kiel University
1986      Vordiplom in oceanography/physics, Kiel University

Research Boards and Committees:

• Chair of independent Expert Panel Fracking of the German Bundestag
• Member of DFG Senate Commission Earth System Research
• Chief Executive Editor and Member of the Editorial Board of the open access journal Solid Earth
• President (2011-2015) of the Seismology Division at European Geosciences Union (EGU)
• Member of Managing Board of Directors at German Geophysical Society (DGG; 2008-2016)
• Secretary General of Forschungskollegium Physik des Erdkörpers (FKPE)
  

Awards:

• 2018. Member of European Academy of Sciences. - Academia Europaea, London.
• 2016. Member of National Academy of Science and Engineering. - acatech, Munich.
• 2015. Offer of W3-professorship 'Geophysikalisches Processing mit Schwerpunkt Seismik'. TU Berlin, July 2015, responded.
• 2015. Offer of W3-professorship 'Oberflächennahe Geophysik'. Universität Freiburg, Jan. 2015, declined.
• 2014. Honorable note of awarded talk at Sageep2014 in the journal 'The Leading Edge' by the SEG.
• 2013. Best of Near Surface 2013 (C.M.Krawczyk, U.Polom, A.Malehmir, M.Bastani). - EAGE, Houten/NL.
• 2011. Member of AcademiaNet. - Robert Bosch Foundation, 'Excellent Scientists in sight'.
• 2010. Best of Near Surface 2010 (U.Polom, J.-S.L'Heureux, L.Hansen, I.Lecomte, O.Longva, C.M.Krawczyk). - EAGE, Houten/NL.
• 2009.  C.F. Gauss-Lecture at General Assembly European Geosciences Union. - EGU, Vienna/Austria.
• 2009. Best Poster Award (U.Micksch & C.M.Krawczyk). - IGCP559 committee at EGU session 'Active source images of the crust', Vienna/Austria.
• 1994 and1995. PROCOPE-Stipends.