GFZ German research centre for geo sciences

Prof. Dr. Charlotte Krawczyk

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Prof. Dr. Charlotte Krawczyk
Building A 42, Room 107 (Büro)
Albert-Einstein-Straße 42-46
14473 Potsdam

Function and Responsibilities:

  • Spokesperson of GFZ in the Programboard of the Research Field Earth&Environment
  • Director of Department Geophysics
  • Head of Section Geophysical Imaging
  • 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

Career:

      > 2016    GFZ, Potsdam: Head of Section Geophysical Imaging
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:

  • Senator for Geosciences at DFG
  • Chair of independent Expert Panel Fracking of the German Bundestag
  • Member of DFG Senate Commission Earth System Research (2017-2023)
  • Chief Executive Editor and Member of the Editorial Board of the open access journal Solid Earth
  • President of the Seismology Division at European Geosciences Union (EGU; 2011-2015)
  • Member of Managing Board of Directors at German Geophysical Society (DGG; 2008-2016)
  • Chief Executive of Forschungskollegium Physik des Erdkörpers (FKPE; 2021-2023)
  • Secretary General of Forschungskollegium Physik des Erdkörpers (FKPE; 2013-2021)

Awards:

  • 2022. Best Paper Award (Martuganova et al., 2021). - EAGE, Houten/NL.
  • 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.

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