Short Curriculum Vitae of Susanne Buiter
Areas of expertise and major projects
- Quantitative investigation of deformation processes in crust and lithosphere
- Formation and evolution of rifted continental margins
- Scenarios of microcontinent formation
- Subduction zone dynamics, terrane accretion, and continental collision
- Numerical and analogue (laboratory) model benchmarks of brittle thrust wedges
- Numerical modelling of the Wilson Cycle of subduction, collision and rifting
- Development of 2D and 3D numerical modelling software SULEC
Professional appointments
| 2022 - |
Scientific director GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences in Potsdam |
| 2020 - |
Professor at RWTH Aachen University in Tectonics and Geodynamics |
| 2017 - 2020 |
Leader of the Team for Solid Earth Geology at the Geological Survey of Norway
(NGU) |
| 2012 - 2016 |
Leader of the Geodynamics team at NGU |
| 2010 - 2020 |
Adjunct Professor at the University of Oslo (20%) |
| 2006 - 2020 |
Senior researcher in Geodynamics at NGU (full-time) |
| 2004 - 2006 |
Post-doctoral researcher in Geodynamics, NGU |
| 2003 - 2004 |
Post-doctoral research fellow in Geodynamics,
Dalhousie University, Canada |
| 2000 - 2003 |
Post-doctoral researcher in Structural Geology,
Bern University, Switzerland |
Education
| 1994 - 2000 |
Ph.D. in Tectonophysics at Utrecht University, the Netherlands |
| 1989 - 1994 |
MSc in Geophysics at Utrecht University |
Publications and presentations
List of publications
List of presentations
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Google Scholar profile
Teaching RWTH Aachen University 2020-2022
- Geologische Arbeitsmethoden und Kartenkunde (BSc, Summer)
- Gedynamic Modelling (MSc, Summer)
- Verfassen wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten (BSc, Summer)
- Einführung in die Strukturgeologie (BSc, Winter)
- Advanced Structural Geology and Tectonics (BSc, Winter)
- Plate Tectonics (MSc, Winter)
Professional activities and community service summary
- Coordinator for preprint server EGUsphere
(2021-present)
- Officer for the Commission on Tectonics and Structural Geology of the International Union
of Geosciences IUGS, www.tectask.org
(2020-present)
- Chair of the European Geosciences Union (EGU)
Programme Committee (2017–2020)
- President of the Tectonics and Structural Geology (TS) Division of EGU (2013–2017)
- Set up a mentoring programme for EGU’s General Assembly (2017-2018)
- Member of the EGU committee on Outreach (2014–2018)
- Programme Officer of the EGU TS and Geodynamics Divisions (2009–2013)
- Responsible for twitter account of the Geological Survey of Norway (Dec 2016 – Aug 2018)
- Member Long-Term Tectonics working group Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics
CIG (2016-2021)
- Executive editor of open access journal Solid Earth (2019-present)
- Associate editor for Frontiers Solid Earth Geophysics Frontiers in Earth Sciences (2017–2021)
- Associate editor for Geological Magazine (2015–2022)
- Topical Editor of Solid Earth (2009–2013)
- Editor of 3 books (Geol Soc London) and 3 special issues (Solid Earth)
- Convener of ca. 30 sessions since 2006 (list)
- (co)-Organiser of 8 conferences and workshops (2004-present)
- Member of 11 scientific committees (2009-present)
- Ca 40 invited presentations since 2001
- Regular reviewer for scientific journals and research proposals, member of review panels