Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth#
| Membership Number: | 4692 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2018 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/staff/magdalena-scheck |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2018-today Director Department 4 Geosystems and Head of Section 4.5. Basin Modelling
- 2016-2018 Director Department 6 Geotechnologies and Head of Section 6.1. Basin Modelling
- 2013 Professorship Sedimentary Basin Analysis at RWTH Aachen University (joint Appointment with GFZ)
- 2008 Head of Section 4.4: Sedimentary Basin Analysis at GFZ Potsdam
- 2008 - 2009 Helmholtz Management Academy (Malik Management Zentrum St. Gallen)
- 2001 – 2008 Researcher at GFZ Potsdam in the sections "Organic Geochemistry" and "Modelling of Geoprocesses "
- 2000: Research assistant professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, within the framework of the PACE TMR-network
- 1999 – 2000 Researcher at GFZ Potsdam, section "Modelling of Geoprocesses "
- 1997 – 2000 Postdoc at GFZ Potsdam, geoprocess modelling group, DFG joint project "Complementary studies to DEKORP BASIN 96"
- 1994 – 1997 PhD student at the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) Potsdam, Germany & Freie Universität (FU) Berlin;
Fields of Scholarship
- Geoenergy and utilization of the subsurface
- Interpretation of seismic data
- Structure of the crust and lithosphere
- Gravity and isostasy
- Simulation of coupled thermal-hydraulic-mechanical processes
- Salt dynamics
- Thermal field
- Structural and subsidence analysis
- Geodynamics and deformation of sedimentary basins on various scales
- Integration of geoscientific observations into 3-D models of the subsurface
Honours and Awards
- Member of DFG Review Board 314-01 Geology, Paleontology since 2016
- Secretary General of the International Lithosphere Program, since 2013
- Member of Nationales Begleitgremium in the search for a nuclear waste disposal site in Germany
- Deputy president of DGGV since 2018 (German Geological Society)
- Vice president of EGU Division Tectonics and Structural Geology 2015-2019
- Co-Speaker DFG-IRTG StRATEGY/CONICET
- Member Steering Committee of DFG-SPP SAMPLE and of DFG SPP 4D-MB
- Member Intern. Peer Review Panel, Danish Council for Independent Research 2012-2015
- Mentor in different Mentoring Programs
- Member Advisory Board Geothermie-Allianz Bayern since 2016
- Member of the editorial board of Basin Research, since 2009
- Member of the editorial board of Tectonophysics, since 2006
- Coordinator of geoen (Spitzenforschung in den neuen Ländern) 2010-2013
