Prof. Dr. Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth
Function and Responsibilities:
Director of Department 4 Geosystems at GFZ Potsdam Head of section 4.5 Subsurface process modelling at GFZ Potsdam Professor for Basin Analysis at RWTH Aachen University, Faculty of Georesources and Materials EngineeringResearch Interests:
- Digital Twins of the subsurface in sedimentary basins, continetnal interiors and orogens
Geodynamics and deformation of sedimentary basins on various scales
- Geoenergy and utilization of the subsurface
- Integration of geoscientific observations into 3-D models of the subsurface
- Simulation of coupled thermal-hydraulic-mechanical processes
- Thermal field
- Structure of subjacent crust and lithosphere
- Gravity and isostasy
- Interpretation of seismic data
Structural and subsidence analysis
Salt dynamics
Career:
2024 Head of Section Subsurface Process Modelling
2019 Director Department Geosystems
2016 Director Department Geotechnologies
Head of Section Basin Modelling
2013: Professorship Sedimentary Basin Analysis at RWTH Aachen University
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
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
- 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 since 2018
- Member Advisory Board Geothermie-Allianz Bayern
- Member Review Committee DeepNL of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) since 2021
Secretary General of the International Lithosphere Program, 2013-2021
Member of the International Peer Review Panel of the Danish Council for Independent Research | Natural Science 2013-2015
- Deputy president division Tectonics and Structural Geology of EGU, since 2015
Member of the Programme Committee division Geodynamics of EGU (2012-2015)
- Member of the editorial board of Tectonophysics, 2006-2018
- Member of the editorial board of Basin Research, 2009-2015
Member of American Geophysical Union (AGU), European Geosciences Union (EGU), German Geological Society (DGGV), German Geophysical Society (DGG)
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