Dr. Elvira Astafyeva
EnvironmentEarth and the Terrestrial Planets: structure, history and models
RWTH Aachen University, Faculty of Georesources and Materials Engineering
Environment
Sedimentary basin dynamics, 3D data integration, stuctural modeling, Subsurface utitlization, geoenergy
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
Fellowship from the German National Academic Foundation
English, French, German, Romanian
Ongoing projects:
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 Barents -Kara Sea
3D Marmara: lithosphere-scale model of the Marmara Sea
Previous projects:
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 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, since 2015
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, since 2005
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
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