Organization

Sofie Gradmann

Forsker

Phone:

41205137

Mail: sofie.gradmann@ngu.no

Qualifications

CURRENT PROJECTS

COOP3 (Continental Onshore-Offshore Programme) - modelling of flexural strength along the Norwegian margin
BOOST (Barents Sea Onshore-Offshore Structural and Thermal Modelling) - Project Management
DP1_Geofysikk (part of Undergrunnsprogrammet UGP)
Updating and extending the national database for ground geophysics, new solutions for data registration, new methods for accessing and visualizing of data - Project Management

PREVIOUS PROJECTS

NEONOR2 (Neotectonics in Northern Norway) - 3D modelling of the stress field in the Nordland region
NAGTEC - a tectonostratigraphic atlas for the NE Atlantic
TOPOSCANDIA deep (part of TOPOEUROPE) - investigating the deep structure of the Scnadinavian mountains

EDUCATION AND CAREER

2013-present: researcher at NGU
2010-2013: Post Doctoral scholar at NGU
2005-2012: Ph. D. Student at Dept. of Earth Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Thesis: `The evolution of Deep-Water Salt-Tectonic Structures - Numerical Modeling Studies applied to the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico’
2004 –2005: Scientific employee at German Federal Institution for Geosciences and NaturalResources (BGR), Section for Marine Seismic Survey Techniques and Method Development (now Marine Resource Exploration)
2004: Diploma in Geophysics (equivalent to M.Sc.), Institute of Geophysics, University of Hamburg, Germany. Thesis: ‘Seismic studies of salt tectonic structures in the Levantine Basin’
1999-2003: Undergraduate research assistant, Institute of Geophysics, University of Hamburg, Germany

COMMITTEES

AWARDS

2005-2009 Killam Predoctoral Scholarship (awarded by Dalhousie University)
2005-2007 Government of Canada Award (awarded by Foreign Affairs Canada)
2007 Studentship Prize for oral presentation at AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, USA (awarded by Basin Research, Journal of Blackwell Publishing)
2005 Bernd Rendel Prize in Geosciences (awarded by the German Research Foundation)