Univ.-Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Nina Kukowski

Professorin (W3), Allgemeine Geophysik

Nina.Kukowski

Foto: Anne Günther (Universität Jena)

Adresse:
Institut für Geowissenschaften
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Burgweg 11
D-07749 Jena
Raum: H 204

Tel.: +49 (0)3641 948680
Fax: +49 (0)3641 948602
E-Mail:  nina.kukowski@uni-jena.de

Forschungsgebiete

Identifizierung von Geoprozessen und -ereignissen in multimodalen langen Zeitreihen durch Anwendung von KI, Rolle von Fluiden und Deformation in der Erdkruste, an konvergenten Plattenrändern und Sedimentbecken, Geophysikalische Abbildung des Untergrundes, Physikalische Eigenschaften von Geomaterialien und deren Analoga

Studium und akademische Laufbahn

  • 2010-heute Professorin (W3) und Inhaberin des Lehrstuhls für Allgemeine Geophysik, Universität Jena,
    mehrmonatiger Gastaufenthalt an der Universität Bern (Schweiz)

  • 1999-2010 Senior Scientist am Deutschen Geoforschungszentrum (GFZ) Potsdam, Lehrende an der FU Berlin, mehrmonatige Gastaufenthalte in Wellington (Neuseeland) und Santiago de Chile

  • 1993-1998 Hochschulassistentin (C1) am GEOMAR und an der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

  • 1992 Postdoc am GEOMAR Kiel

  • 1988-1992 Doktorandin an der Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 6-monatiger Gastaufenthalt an der Universität Oslo (Norwegen), Promotion Dr. rer. nat.

  • 1988 Diplom in Geophysik an der Technischen Universität Clausthal

  • 1981-1988 Studium der Geophysik an der Technischen Universität Clausthal

Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse, Preise, Auszeichnungen

  • ~ 70 Publikationen in internationalen Zeitschriften mit peer-review , h-index: 38 (Google Scholar, 04/26)
  • 2024: Ausrichtung der 84. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Geophysikalischen Gesellschaft
  • Seit 2013 Mitglied der Erfurter Akademie gemeinnütziger Wissenschaften, seit 2026 Senatorin
  • 2013 – 2016 PI/Co-PI mehrerer wissenschaftlicher Bohrprojekte
  • 2011 – 2014 Co-Sprecherin von INFLUINS (BMBF: Förderlinie Innovation & Strukturwandel)
  • 2006 – 2007 ISES Research Fellow an der VU Amsterdam (Niederlande)
  • 1996 Vortragspreis der Deutschen Geophysikalischen Gesellschaft
  • Seit 1994 zahlreiche Forschungsschiffexpeditionen, oft als PI oder Co-PI (Fahrtleitung)

Gremien und Funktionen (Auswahl)

  • Seit 04/2025 Mitglied des CIO-Gremiums der FSU Jena
  • Dekanin, Chemisch-Geowissenschaftliche Fakultät der FSU (seit 10/2023), davor (2020 – 2023) Prodekanin
  • Vorsitzende (2023-2025) und Mitglied (seit 2014) des FKPE (Forschungskolleg. der Physik des Erdkörpers)
  • 2019 – 2023 Berufungsbeauftragte der FSU Jena
  • 2014 – 2022 Mitglied im Vorstand von GESEP (Deutsches Forschungsbohrkonsortium)
  • 2008 – 2010 Gleichstellungsbeauftragte des GFZ
  • 2006 – 2024 Mitglied des Editorial Board von Tectonophysics
  • 2005 – 2009 Mitglied des Vorstandes der Deutschen Geophysikalischen Gesellschaft
  • 2003 – 2017 Mitglied der Steuergruppe “Mittelgroße Forschungsflotte” der Senatskommission für Ozeanographie der DFG

Ausgewählte Veröffentlichungen (mit peer review, seit 2005)

Dahm T, Schmitt AK, de Silva S, Fischer T, Holzheid A, Kukowski N, Lavalle Y, Sturm A, Troch J (2026) Follow the CO2 – drilling into an actively degassing intraplate volcano underlain by a silicate – carbonatite intrusion. Sci. Dril. 35, 1 – 20,
https://doi.org/10.5194/sd-35-1-2026Externer Link

Kasburg V, Zehner M, van Laaten M, Müller J, Kukowski N (2025) Explainable seismic event discrimmination: Improved explainability with Vision Transformers. Journal of Geophysical Reserach Machine Learning and Computation 2, e2025JH000802.,
https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JH000802Externer Link.

Khamis SS, Sulai IA, Hamilton Paul, Afach S ,Buchler BC, Budker D, Figueroa NL, Folman R and Gavilan-Martin D, Givon M, Grujic ZD, Guo H, Hedges MP, Jackson Kimball DF, and Kim D, Klinger E, Kornack T, Kryemadhi A, Kukowski N, Lukasiewicz G, Masia-Roig H, Padniuk M, Palm CA, Park SY, Peng X, Pospelov M, Pustelny S, Rosenzweig Y, Ruimi OM, Segura PC, Scholtes T, Semertzidis YK,
Shin YC, Stalnaker JE, Tandon D, Weis A, Wickenbrock A, Wilson TZ, Wu T, Zhang J Zhao Y (2025) Multimessenger Search for Exotic Field Emission with a Global Magnetometer Network. Phys. Rev. X 15, 031048, https://doi.org/10.1103/fsc8-6sl5Externer Link

Zehner M, Kasburg V, Dubois C, Thiel C, Brenning A, Baade J, Kukowski N, Schmullius C (2024) A transformer approach for multi orbit per pixel time series forest characterization with Sentinel-1. IEEE, 
https://doi.org/10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10641144Externer Link

Ahmad W, Kasburg V, Shadaydeh M, Kukowski N, Denzler J (2024) Deep learning-based Causal Inference: A Feasibility Study Based on Three Years of Tectonic-Climate Data From Moxa Geodynamic Observatory. Earth and Space Science 11, e2023EA003430.
https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EA003430Externer Link

Kasburg V, Müller J, Eulenfeld T, Breuer A, Kukowski N (2024) Cross‐Regional Seismic Event Discrimination via Convolutional Neural Networks: Exploring Fine‐Tuning and Ensemble Averaging. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America 114, 842–856,
https://doi.org/10.1785/0120230198Externer Link

Schwarze CO, Frenzel P, Kukowski N (2023) Patterns and cyclicity of Quaternary sedimentation above a subducting seamount at Rock Garden (Central Hikurangi margin, New Zealand), Marine Geology 463, 107102, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2023.107102Externer Link

Schwarze CO, Kukowski N (2022) Décollement strength and mechanical segmentation along the frontal wedge of the Hikurangi convergent margin (New Zealand): Insights from critical taper analysis. Tectonophysics 844, 229622,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2022.229622Externer Link

Warsitzka M, Kukowski N, May F (2022) Patterns and failure modes of fractures resulting from forced folding of cohesive caprocks - Comparison of 2D vs. 3D and single- vs. multi-layered analog examples. Frontiers in Earth Sciences 10:881134.
https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.881134Externer Link

Schwarze CO, Hopkins JL, Storm S, Orpin A, Schmitt AK, Kukowski N (2022) Quaternary marine tephrochronology of Rock Garden accretionary ridge, Hikurangi Subduction Margin, New Zealand. J Volcanology and Geothermal Research 423, 107476,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2022.107476Externer Link

Herbozo G, Kukowski N, Pecher I (2022) Tectonic BSR hypothesis at the Peruvian margin: a forgotten way to see marine gas hydrate systems at convergent margins. In: Mienert J, Berndt C (eds) World Atlas of Submarine Gas Hydrates in Continental Margin, 391- 401, 
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81186-0_33Externer Link

Herbozo G, Kukowski N, Clift PD, Pecher I, Bolaños R (2020) Cenozoic increase in subduction erosion during plate convergence variability along the convergent margin off Trujillo, Peru. Tectonophysics 790,  
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2020.228557Externer Link

Warsitzka M, Kukowski N, May F (2019) The formation of forced folds and wing-like sand intrusions driven by pore fluid overpressure: implications from 2D experimental modeling. Journal of Geophysical Research 124, 12277 - 12303,
https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JB018120Externer Link

Lepetit P, Ähnelt M, Viereck L, Strauss M, Abratis M, Fritsch S, Malz A, Kukowski N, Totsche KU (2019) Intraformational fluid flow in the Thuringia Syncline (Germany) - Evidence from stable isotope data in vein mineralization of Upper Permian and Mesozoic sediments. Chemical Geology 523, 133 - 153,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.05.001Externer Link

May F, Warsitzka M, Kukowski N (2019) Analogue modelling of leakage processes in unconsolidated sediments. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control 90, 102805,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2019.102805Externer Link

Schulz A, Kukowski N, Großwig S, Hendel R (2019) The influence of rock thermal conductivity and groundwater flow on the freezing process in a freezing shaft – results of transient numerical simulations. Georesources Journal 1-2019, 27 – 36
https://www.georesources.net/download/GeoResources-Journal-1-2019.pdfExterner Link

Queitsch M, Schiffler M, Stolz R, Rolf C, Meyer M, Kukowski N (2019) Investigation of 3D magnetization of a dolerite intrusion using airborne full tensor magnetic gradiometry data. Geophysical Journal International 217, 1643 - 1655,
https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggz104Externer Link

Warsitzka M, Jähne-Klingberg F, Kley J, Kukowski N (2018) The timing of salt structure growth in the Southern Permian Basin and implications for basin dynamics. Basin Research,
https://doi.org/10.1111/bre.12323Externer Link

Albert F, Kukowski N, Tassara A, Oncken O (2018) Material transfer at erosive convergent margins: insights from analogue experiments. Tectonophysics 749, 46 - 61,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2018.10.019Externer Link

Rochlitz R, Queitsch M, Yogeshwar P, Janser S, Günther T, Kukowski N, Stolz R (2018) Capability of low temperature SQUID for transient electromagnetics under anthropogenic noise conditions. Geophysics 83, E371 – E383,
https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2017-0582.1Externer Link

Kunkel C, Aehnelt M, Pudlo D, Kukowski N, Totsche KU, Gaupp R (2018) Subsurface aquifer heterogeneities of Lower Triassic clastic sediments in central Germany. Marine and Petroleum Geology 97, 209 – 222,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2018.06.022Externer Link

Warsitzka M, Kukowski N, Kley J (2018) Salt flow direction and velocity during sub-salt normal faulting and syn-kinematic sedimentation – implications from analytical calculations, Geophysical Journal International 213, 115–134,
https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggx552Externer Link

Pecher IA, Villinger H, Kaul N, Crutchley GJ, Mountjoy J J, Huhn K, Kukowski N, Henrys SA, Rose PS, Coffin RB (2017) A fluid pulse on the Hikurangi subduction margin: Evidence from a heat flux transect across the upper limit of gas hydrate stability. Geophysical Research Letters, 44.
https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL076368Externer Link

Warsitzka M, Kukowski N, May F (2017) Fluid-overpressure driven sediment mobilisation and its risk for the integrity for CO2 storage sites – an analogue modelling approach. Energy Procedia 114, 3291-3304,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.03.1461Externer Link

Schiffler M, Queitsch M, Stolz R, Meyer H-G, Kukowski N (2017) Application of Hilbert-like transforms for enhanced processing of full tensor magnetic gradient data. Geophysical Prospecting, 65: 68–81.
https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2478.12518Externer Link

Warsitzka M, Kley J, Kukowski N (2017) Dynamics of prolonged salt movement in the Glückstadt Graben (NW Germany) driven by tectonic and sedimentary processes. Int J Earth Sci 105, 1 – 25,
https.//doi.org/10.1007/s00531-016-1306-3Externer Link

Kobe M, Jahr T, Pöschel W, Kukowski N (2016) Comparing a new laser strainmeter array with an adjacent, parallel running quartz tube strain meter array. Review of Scientific Instruments 87, 034502,
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4942433Externer Link

Kukowski N (2016) Wadati-Benioff Zone. In: Harff J, Meschede M, Petersen S, Thiede J (eds): Encyclopedia of Marine Geosciences.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6644-0_108-1Externer Link

Kukowski N (2016) Earthquake. In: Harff J, Meschede M, Petersen S, Thiede J (eds): Encyclopedia of Marine Geosciences.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6644-0_106-1Externer Link

Warsitzka M, Kley J, Kukowski N (2015) Analogue experiments of salt flow and pillow growth due to basement faulting and differential loading. Solid Earth, 6, 9–31,
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-6-9-2015Externer Link

Goepel A, Lonschinski M, Viereck L, Büchel G, Kukowski N (2015) Volcano-tectonic structures and CO2-degassing patterns in the Laacher See basin, Germany. Int J Earth Sci 104, 1483 – 1495,
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-014-1133-3Externer Link

Schiffler M, Queitsch M, Stolz R, Chwala A, Krech W, Meyer H-G, Kukowski N (2014) Calibration of SQUID vector magnetometers in full tensor gradiometry systems. Geophysical journal International 198, 954 – 964, https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggu173Externer Link

Herbozo G, Hübscher C, Kaul N, Wagner M, Pecher I, Kukowski N (2013) Influence of recent depositional and tectonic controls on marine gas hydrates in Trujillo Basin, Peru Margin. Marine Geology 340, 30 – 48, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2013.04.010Externer Link

Warsitzka M, Kley J, Kukowski N (2013): Salt diapirism driven by differential loading – some insights from analogue modelling. Tectonophysics 591, 83 - 97,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2011.11.018Externer Link

Krawczyk CM, Buddensiek ML, Oncken O, Kukowski N (2013) Seismic imaging of sandbox experiments – laboratory hardware setup and first reflection seismic sections. Solid Earth 4, 93 - 104,
https://doi.org/10.5194/sed-4-1317-2012Externer Link

Contardo XJ, Kukowski N, Cembrano JM (2011): Material transfer and its influence on the formation of slope basins along the South Central Chilean convergent margin: Insights from scaled sandbox experiments. Tectonophysics 513, 20 – 36,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tecto.2011.09.016Externer Link

Reiter, K., Kukowski, N., Ratschbacher, L. (2011): The interaction of two indenters in analogue experiments and implications for curved fold-and-thrust belts. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 302, 132 – 146,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2010.12.002Externer Link

Loveless, J.P., Pritchard, M.E., Kukowski, N. (2010): Testing mechanisms of subduction zone segmentation and seismogenesis with slip distributions from recent Andean earthquakes. Tectonophysics 495, 15 - 33, https://doi:.org/0.1016/j.tecto.2009.05.008Externer Link

Wang, K., Hu, Y., von Huene, R., Kukowski, N. (2010): Great interplate earthquakes as a driver of shallow subduction erosion. Geology 38, 431–434,
https://doi.org/10.1130/G30597.1Externer Link

Pecher, I.A., Henrys, S., Wood, W., Kukowski, N., Fohrmann, M., Kilner, J., Senger, K., Crutchley, G., Gorman, A., Coffin, R., Greinert, J., Faure, K. (2010): Focused fluid expulsion on the Hikurangi margin, New Zealand – Evidence from possible local upwarping of the base of gas hydrate stability. Marine Geology,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2009.10.006Externer Link

Ellis, S., Pecher, I.A., Kukowski, N., Xu, W., Henrys, S., Greinert, J. (2010): Testing proposed mechanisms for seafloor weakening at the top of gas hydrate stability, Rock Garden, New Zealand. Marine Geology,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2009.10.008Externer Link

Kukowski, N., Greinert, J., Henrys, S. (2010): Seafloor morphology and stability above a subducting seamount in the Hikurangi accretionary wedge. Marine Geology 272, 141 – 153,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2009.06.004Externer Link

Buddensiek, M., Krawczyk, C.M., Kukowski, N., Oncken, O. (2009): Performance of Piezo-crystal transducers with respect to amplitude and waveform in laboratory seismic application. Geophysics 74, 33 – 45, https://doi.org/10.1190/1.3072619Externer Link

Kukowski, N., Hampel, A., Hoth, S., Bialas, J. (2008): Morphotectonic and morphometric analysis of the Nazca plate and the adjacent offshore Peruvian continental slope – implications for submarine landscape evolution. Marine Geology, 254. 107 - 120,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2008.05.017Externer Link

Hoth, S., Kukowski, N., Oncken, O. (2008): Distant effects in bivergent orogenic belts – How retro-wedge erosion triggers resource formation in pro-foreland basins. EPSL 273, 28 - 37,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2008.05.033Externer Link

Hoth, S., Hoffmann-Rothe, A., Kukowski, N. (2007): Frontal accretion – an internal clock for bivergent wedge deformation and surface uplift. J. Geophys. Res., B06408,
https://doi.org/10/1029/2006JB004357Externer Link

Lohrmann, J., Kukowski, N., Krawczyk, C.M., Oncken, O., Sick, C., Sobiesiak, M., Rietbrock, A. (2006): Subduction channel evolution in brittle forearc wedges – A combined study with scaled sandbox experiments, seismological and reflection seismic data and geological field evidences. In: Oncken, O., Chong, G., Franz, G., Giese, P., Götze, H.-J., Ramos, V., Strecker, M., Wigger, P. (eds)
Andean Geodynamics, Frontiers in Geosciences 1, Springer, 237 - 262

Kukowski, N., Oncken, O. (2006): Subduction erosion – is this the “normal” mode of fore-arc material transfer along the Chilean margin? In: Oncken, O., Chong, G., Franz, G., Giese, P., Götze, H.-J., Ramos, V., Strecker, M., Wigger, P. (eds) Andean Geodynamics,
Frontiers in Geosciences 1, Springer, 217 - 236

Hoffmann-Rothe, A., Kukowski, N., Dresen, G., Echtler, H., Oncken, O., Klotz, J., Scheuber, E., Kellner, A. (2006): Oblique convergence along the Chilean margin: Partitioning, margin-parallel faulting and force interaction at the plate interface. In: Oncken, O., Chong, G., Franz, G., Giese, P., Götze, H.-J., Ramos, V., Strecker, M., Wigger, P. (eds) Andean Geodynamics, Frontiers in Geosciences 1, Springer, 125 - 146

Atmaoui, N., Kukowski, N, Stöckhert, B., König, D. (2006): Initiation and development of pull-apart basins with riedel shear mechanism: insights from clay scaled experiments. Int Journal Earth Sciences 95, 225 - 238,
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00531-005-0030-1Externer Link

Pecher IA, Henrys SA, Ellis S, Chiswell SM, Kukowski N (2005) Erosion of the seafloor at the top of the gas hydrate stability zone on the Hikurangi Margin, New Zealand. Geophys. Res. Lett. 32, L24603,
https://doi.org/10.1029/2005GL024687Externer Link

Adam J, Urai J, Wiennecke B, Oncken O, Pfeiffer K, Kukowski N, Lohrmann J, Hoth S, van der Zee W, Schmatz J (2005) Shear zone formation and strain distibution in granular materials – new insights empoying high-resolution optical image correlation. J. Struct. Geol. 27, 283 – 301,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2004.08.008Externer Link