Susanne Buiter - Curriculum Vitae#

• Scientific director and spokesperson of the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam - GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences

• 2022 - present Scientific director GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
  
• 2020 - present:Professor at RWTH Aachen University in Tectonics and Geodynamics, Aachen, Germany
  
• 2017 - 2020 Leader of the Team for Solid Earth Geology at the Geological Survey of Norway (NGU), Trondheim, Norway
  
• 2012 - 2016 Leader of the Team for Geodynamics at NGU, Norway\
• 2006 - 2020 Senior researcher in Geodynamics at NGU, Norway
  
• 2010 - 2020 Adjunct Professor (20%), Centre of Excellences PGP/CEED, Oslo University, Norway
  
• 2004 - 2006 Post-doctoral researcher Geodynamics, NGU, Norway.
  
• 2003 - 2004 Post-doctoral researcher Geodynamics, Dalhousie University, Canada
• 2000 - 2003 Post-doctoral researcher Structural Geology, University of Bern, Switzerland

• 1994 - 2000 Ph.D. in Tectonophysics at Utrecht University, The Netherlands
  
• 1989 - 1994 M.Sc. in Geophysics at Utrecht University
  

• Quantitative investigation of deformation processes in crust and lithosphere
  
• Formation and evolution of rifted continental margins
  
• Subduction zone dynamics, terrane accretion, and continental collision
  
• Numerical modelling of the Wilson Cycle of subduction, collision and rifting
  
• Numerical and analogue (laboratory) model benchmarks of brittle thrust wedges
  
• Development of 2D/3D numerical modelling software SULEC

• Vice-President of the Helmholtz Research Field „Earth and Environment“ (2024 - 2025)
  
• Member in the Economic Council of the state capital Potsdam (2024 - 2026)
  
• Member and Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees of ProWissen e.V. (2022 - present)
  
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (2022 - present)
  
• Member of the Board of Directors of Geo.X, Research Network for Geosciences in Berlin and Potsdam (2022 - present)
  
• Member of the Advisory Board of DVGeo, Umbrella Organization of Geosciences in Germany (2022 - present)
  
• Member of the Board of Directors of GeoUnion (Alfred-Wegner-Foundation) (2022 - present)
  
• Deputy Chair of the Board of Directors of LAUF e.V., State Association for Non-University Research Brandenburg (2022-present)
  
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the Geo-Centre at the KTB (2022 - present)
  
• Member of the Founders’ Assembly of the Potsdam Research Network Pearls (2022 - present)
  
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the German Science Journalists’ Association WPK(2022 - present)
  
• Member of the Supervisory Board and the Founders' Board of the Central Asian Institute for Applied Geosciences CAIAG (2022-present)
  
• Member of the Board of Directors of GeoLab – A geoscientific underground laboratory (2022 - present)

• Executive Board Member of the International Association for Structural Geology and Tectonics of the International Union of Geosciences IUGS (2022-present)
  
• Officer for the Commission on Tectonics and Structural Geology of the IUGS (2020-2022)
  
• Chair of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) Programme Committee (2017–2020)
  
• President of the Tectonics and Structural Geology Division of EGU (2013–2017)
  
• Member of the EGU committee on Outreach (2014–2018)
  
• Member of the Long-Term Tectonics working group of the Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics CIG (2016-2021)
  
• Programme Officer of the EGU Tectonics and Structural Geology Division and the Geodynamics Division (2009–2013)
  
• Member of > 10 Scientific Committees for workshops and conferences (since 2009)
  
• (Co-)Organiser of 8 international workshops and conferences (since 2004)
  
• Convener of > 30 sessions (since 2006)

• Coordinator for preprint server EGUsphere (2021 - 2022)
  
• Executive editor of open access journal Solid Earth (2019 - present)
  
• Associate editor of Solid Earth Geophysics specialty section of Frontiers in Earth Sciences (2017 – 2020)
  
• Member of the editorial board of Geological Magazine (2015 – 2022)
  
• Topic (Associate) Editor of Solid Earth (2009 – 2013)
  
• Editor of 3 books (Geol Soc London) and 3 special issues (Solid Earth)