Susanne Buiter#
| Membership Number: | 6773 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.gfz-potsdam.de/en/staff/susanne.buiter/wv |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-2493-2377 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2022 - present Scientific director Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany.
- 2020 - present Professor in Tectonics and Geodynamics at RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.
- 2017 - 2020 Leader of the Team for Solid Earth Geology at the Geological Survey of Norway, Trondheim, Norway.
- 2012 - 2016 Leader of the Team for Geodynamics at the Geological Survey of Norway, Trondheim, Norway.
- 2006 - 2020 Senior researcher in Geodynamics at Geological Survey of Norway, Trondheim, Norway.
- 2010 - 2020 Adjunct Professor (20%), Centre of Excellences PGP/CEED, Oslo University, Norway.
- 2004 - 2006 Post-doctoral researcher Geodynamics, Geological Survey of Norway, Norway.
- 2003 - 2004 Post-doctoral researcher Geodynamics, Dalhousie University, Canada.
- 2000 - 2003 Post-doctoral researcher Structural Geology, University of Bern, Switzerland.
Fields of Scholarship
- Quantitative investigation of deformation processes in crust and lithosphere
- Subduction zone dynamics, terrane accretion, and continental collision
- Development of 2D/3D numerical modelling software
- Numerical modelling of the Wilson Cycle of subduction, collision and rifting
- Numerical and analogue (laboratory) model benchmarks of brittle thrust wedges
- Formation and evolution of rifted continental margins
Honours and Awards
- 2024 - 2025 Vice-President of the Helmholtz Research Field „Earth and Environment“
- 2024 - 2026 Member in the Economic Council of the state capital Potsdam
- 2023 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network "Talents", Co-PI for GFZ as Coordinator
- 2022 Union Service Award of the European Geosciences Union (EGU)
- 2022 - present Member and Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees of ProWissen e.V, Brandenburg
- 2022 - present Member of the Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
- 2022 - present Member of the Advisory Board of DVGeo, Umbrella Organization of Geosciences in Germany
- 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 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
- 2021 - 2022 Coordinator for preprint server EGUsphere
- 2019 - present Executive Editor of open access journal Solid Earth
- 2017 AGU editors’ citation for excellence in refereeing in G-cubed
- 2017 - 2019 Chair of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) Programme Committee
- 2017 - 2020 Associate editor of Solid Earth Geophysics specialty section of Frontiers in Earth Sciences
- 2015 - 2022 Member of the editorial board of Geological Magazine
- 2013 - 2017 President of the Tectonics and Structural Geology Division of the European Geosciences Union EGU
- 2009 - 2013 Topic (Associate) Editor of Solid Earth
- 2007 Young Outstanding Scientist Award of the Norwegian Research Council
