Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth - Curriculum Vitae#

• 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 (funded by Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)

• 1993: Project leader at EXALYT Berlin: projects in the field of contamination clean-up of groundwater and soil

• 1994 - 1997: Doctorate study in Geosciences at Freie Universität Berlin and GFZ Potsdam: Theme: 3D Structural modelling of the Northeast German Basin considering crustal models

• 1997 - 2000: Postdoc at GFZ Potsdam, geoprocess modelling group, within the framework of the German Research Foundation (DFG) joint project "Complementary studies to DEKORP BASIN96", since 1999 "Modelling of Geoprocesses ", performing research in intracontinental basins of North Central Europe. Preparation of the DFG priority programme "Sedimentary Basin 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

• 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

• 2008: Head of Section 4.4: Sedimentary Basin Analysis at GFZ Potsdam, 2014: Director Department 4. Chemistry of the Earth and then since 2016 Director of Department 6 Geotechnologies and Head of Section 6.1. Basin Modelling

• 2008 - 2009 Helmholtz Management Academy (Malik Management Zentrum St. Gallen)

• 2013: Professorship Sedimentary Basin Analysis at RWTH Aachen University as a joint appointment with GFZ Potsdam

Area of expertise:

Structure, geodynamics and physical properties of sedimentary basins
The research of Prof. Scheck-Wenderoth is focused on the topics of Geoenergy and Geodynamics of sedimentary basins, data-based structural modelling of sediments, crust and lithospheric mantle, coupled transport of heat and fluids in the subsurface, regional 3D gravity modelling, structural and subsidence history and salt dynamics.

Regional (basin-scale) models of coupled fluid- and heat transport and analysis of boundary conditions relevant for geothermal applications address case studies in Central Europe (Central European Basin System, Molasse Basin, Upper Rhine Graben); South and North Atlantic conjugate passive margins, arctic basins (Beaufort-MacKenzie Basin, Barents-Kara Sea) and the Andean foreland.