Prof. Dr. Magdalena Scheck-Wenderoth

• 1992 – 1993
  Geochemical research assistant at the Environmental and Economic Geology Company (UWGmbH), Berlin, Germany
  
  

• 1993
  Project director at the EXALYT Chemical Analysis Company, Berlin: projects in the field of contamination clean-up of groundwater and soil
  
  

• 1994 – 1997
  PhD student at the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) Potsdam, Germany / Freie Universität (FU) Berlin; worked on creating a 3-D structural model of the North German Basin
  
  

• 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"
  
  

• 1999 – 2000
  Researcher at GFZ Potsdam, geoprocess modelling group, research concentration: the intracontinental northern European basin. Preparation of the Sedimentary Basin Dynamics priority programme
  
  

• 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 "Organic Geochemistry" and "Geoprocess Modelling" working groups. Research topic: intracontinental northern European basin, passive continental margins of the Atlantic Ocean in Norway and South Africa, salt dynamics
  
  

• Since 2008
  Head of Section: "Sedimentary Basin Analysis" at GFZ Potsdam
  
  

• Since 2013
  Professorship "Sedimentary basin analysis" at RWTH Aachen, Faculty of Georesources and Materials Engineering
  
  

• 2015
  Director of GFZ Department "Geochemistry"
  
  

• 2016 – 2019
  Director of Department "Geotechnologies", head of section "Basin Modeling"
  
  

• since 2019
  Director of Department "Geosystems", head of section "Basin Modeling"
  
  

• Ongoing projects:

  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 project: Energy Systems 2050: 3D Structure and thermal field of Berlin

  3D lithospheric model of the North Atlantic

  3D Marmara: lithosphere-scale model of the Marmara Sea

• Previous projects:

  3D model of the Caribbean

  3D lithospheric model of the Barents -Kara Sea

  EU: IMAGE – Thermal Modelling Upper Rhine Graben

  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

  3D structural and thermal model of the Molasse Basin

• GeoEn – BMBF-Verbundprojekt im Programm "Spitzenforschung in den Neuen Ländern": Geoenergie aus unkonventionellen Ressourcen

• Südafrikanische Gassysteme (INKABA ye'AFRICA)

• MOM – Methane on the move

• GASH: Gas Shale in Europe

• European Science Foundation (ESF) EUROCORES EUROMARGINS – Norwegian continental margin

• Priority Programme 1135, Palaeostress analysis in the central European basin system

• Priority Programme 1135, 3-D structural modelling and basin analysis of the central European basin system (CEBS)

• Priority Programme 1135, Mesozoic fault systems

• German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) PROCOPE, The structural inheritance of the Boulonnais

• PACE network

• EUROPROBE TESZ and GEORIFT

• Mechanisms of basin formation with attention to the structure and evolution of the deep crust (North German Basin)

• German Research Foundation (DFG) joint funding application for DEKORP NE Germany

• Evolution of Salt structures in the North German Basin

• Member of DFG Review Board 314-01 Geology, Paleontology, since 2016

• Secretary General of the International Lithosphere Program, since 2013

• Member of "Nationales Begleitgremium" since 2020

• Member of the International Peer Review Panel of the Danish Council for Independent Research | Natural Science 2012-2015

  Member of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vice -President of division Tectonics and Structural Geology of the EGU, 2015-2020

  Member of the Geodynamics Programme Committee of the EGU 2012-2015

• Member of German Geological Society (DGGV) Advisory Board DGGV, since 2015

• Member of American Geophysical Union (AGU)

  Member of German Geophysical Society(DGG)

  Member of the editorial board of Basin Research, since 2009

• Member of the editorial board of Tectonophysics, since 2006

• Co-coordinator of the "Sedimentary Basins" task force, International Lithosphere Programme, 2005-2015

• Supervision of PhD students

• External reviewer of dissertations written in the Netherlands, Norway, South Africa and Denmark

• Reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DFG), various European and Canadian research funding institutions

• Teaching at the RWTH Aachen, the Freie Universität (FU) Berlin and the University of Potsdam, Germany; many years of experience in international collaborations

Soft Skills

• Helmholtz Management Academy