Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Lars Rüpke

Professor (Topic 8)
Research Devision 4: Dynamics of the Ocean Floor
Research Unit: Magmatic and Hydrothermal Systems

Office:
Room: 8D-205
Phone: +49 431 600 2845
E-Mail: lruepke(at)geomar.de

Address:
GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Wischhofstraße 1-3 
D-24148 Kiel

Research Focus

  • Simulations of geological Processes
  • Geological resources at the seafloor (The Future Ocean
  • Hydrothermal systems
  • Basin analysis and passive continental margins 
  • Subduction zones (SFB 574)
  • Geodynamics and mantle convection
  • State of the ocean - world ocean review

Projects

  • AIMS3 II (Alternative scenarios, innovative technologies and monitoring concepts for the storage of carbon dioxide under the seabed; Project: Characterization of crustal material cycles, biogeochemical monitoring and modelling of CO2 injection at the Reykjanes Ridge) /BMBF/ PTJ/ 03F0964C / 01.08.2024- - 31.07.2027
  • MINMOD (Towards Integrated Mineral System Modeling for Marine Mineral Resource) Mittelg. EQUINOR / 01.08.2022 - 31.03.2026
  • HydroTekt (The interaction of hydrothermal and tectonic processes at (ultra)slow spreading mid-ocean ridges) DFG RU1469/4-1 /01.08.2023 - 31.03.2025 
  • DOME-HTC (Priority Program: Dynamics of Ore Metal Enrichment - DOME: The Hydrogeological Regime of the Hydrothermal TAG Mound on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge - Insights into Metal Fluxes from Reaction-Transport Modeling)/ DFG RU1469/5-1 / 01.01.2024 - 31.12.2026

Vita

  • since 10.07 W2 Professor at GEOMAR and the cluster of excellence The Future Ocean.
  • Head of the Seafloor Modeling Group 
  • 01.06 - 09.07 Senior Researcher and coordinator of the Geodynamics group at PGP, Oslo.
  • 04.05 - 12.05 Scientist at PGP, Oslo.
  • 06.04 - 03.05 Scientist at IFM-GEOMAR.
  • 07.00 - 05.04 PhD thesis "Effects of Plate Subduction on Earth's Deep Water Cycles" at IFM-GEOMAR. Supervisors: Prof. Jason Phipps Morgan and Prof. Matthias Hort
  • 06.00 DEA (MSc) in "Marine Geosciences" at IUEM in Brest. Option: "Geophysics"

Publications (OceanRep)

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Publications (Google Scholar)

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Lars Rüpke on Google Scholar

 

Awards

  • 2013 Outstanding reviewer award - Geophysical Journal International
  • 2007 Most cited paper award - Earth and Planetary Science Letters
  • 2006 Best thesis in section E of the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft und nomination for the young scientist award
  • 2005 Karl Zoeppritz award from the german geophysical society (DGG)
  • 2005 Faculty award from the natural sciences faculty, Christian-Albrechts-University, Kiel
  • 2000 Best graduate, DEA Geosciences Marines, Brest

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