Prof. Erik H. Saenger

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Erik H. Saenger is since 2014 a Professor of Reservoir Geophysics at the Hochschule Bochum and a private lecturer (Venia Legendi) at the Ruhr University Bochum. Since 2020 he is also affiliated with Fraunhofer IEG. He did both his undergraduate and post graduate work in physics and geophysics at the University of Karlsruhe (Germany) and has over 20 years of academic experience since receiving his doctorate degree. He worked from 2001 to 2006 as a post doctoral researcher at the Freie Universitaet Berlin (Germany) as the leader of the numerical rock physics group. From 2006 to 2012 he was a scientific consultant for Spectraseis; from 2007 to 2014 he worked as a research scientist at the Geological Institute at ETH Zurich. His research interests include scale-dependent estimation of effective elastic properties of fractured and porous rocks, fluid effects on wave propagation, passive seismic data, geothermal applications, and development and implementation of various finite difference approaches to model wave propagation in anisotropic and viscoelastic media. He is Associate Editor of Geophysics.

    • Strozyk, F., Reuning, L., Back, S., Kukla, P.A. (2018). Giant pockmark formation from Cretaceous hydrocarbon expulsion in the westernmost Lower Saxony Basin, Netherlands. In: Kilhams, B., Kukla, P. A., Mazur, S., Mckie, T., Mijnlieff, H. F. & can Ojik, K. (eds) Mesozoic Resource Potential in the Southern Permian Basin. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 469
    • Kukla, P.A., Strozyk, F., Mohriak, W.U. (2017). South Atlantic salt basins - witnesses of complex passive margin evolution. Gondwana Research. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2017.03.012 
    • Strozyk, F., Reuning, L., Scheck-Wenderoth, M., Tanner, D. (2017). The tectonic history of the Zechstein Basin in the Netherlands and Germany. In: J.I. Soto, J. Flinch, G. Tari (Eds), Permo-Triassic salt provinces in Europe, North Africa and the atlantic margins: Tectonics and hydrocarbon potential. Elsevier.
    • Strozyk, F. (2017). The internal structure of the Zechstein salt and related drilling risks in the northern Netherlands. In: J.I. Soto, Flinch, J.F., Tari, G. (Eds), PermoTriassic salt provinces in Europe, North Africa and the atlantic margins: Tectonics and hydrocarbon potential. Elsevier.
    • Huhn, K., Strozyk, F., Kock, I. (2016). Quantifying the key role of slope material peak strength – using discrete element simulations. In: Lamarche G, Mountjoy J (eds), Submarine mass movements and their consequences. Springer, Dordrecht, pp 537–546. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-20979-1_54 
    • Strozyk, F., Back, S., Kukla, P.A. (2016). Comparison of the rift and post-rift architecture of conjugated salt and salt-free basins offshore Brazil and Angola/Namibia, South Atlantic. Tectonopysics. doi: 10.1016/j.tecto.2016.12.012 
    • Raith, A F., Strozyk, F., Visser, J., and Urai, J. L. (2015). Evolution of rheologically heterogeneous salt structures: a case study from the northeast of the Netherlands, Solid Earth Discuss., 7, 1877-1908, doi:10.5194/sed-7-1877-2015 
    • Strozyk, F., Back, S., Kukla, P.A., (2015). Regional Seismic-Based Comparison of Syn- and Postrift Sequences in Salt and Salt-Free Basins Offshore Brazil and Angola/Namibia, South Atlantic. GCSSEPM 2015.
    • Sachse, Victoria; Strozyk, Frank; Anka, Zahie; Rodriguez, Jorge; di Primio, Prof. Dr. Rolando, (2015). The tectono-stratigraphic evolution of the Austral Basin and adjacent areas against the background of Andean tectonics, southern Argentina, South America. Basin Research, p. 1-21
    • Strozyk, F., Janos L. Urai, Heijn van Gent, Martin de Keijzer, Peter Kukla (2014). Regional variations in the structure of the Permian Zechstein 3 intra-salt stringer in the Northern Netherlands: 3D seismic interpretation and implications for salt tectonic evolution. Interpretation, Vol. 2, No. 4, p. 1–17
    • B. C. Biehl, L. Reuning, F. Strozyk and P. A. Kukla (2014). Origin and deformation of intra-salt sulphate layers: an example from the Dutch Zechstein (Late Permian). International Journal of Earth Sciences103, Issue 3, 697-712
    • Vackiner, A.A., Antrett, P., Strozyk, F., Stollhofen, H., Back, S., Kukla, P.A., (2013). Salt kinematics and regional tectonics across a Permian gas field: a case study from East Frisia, NW Germany. International Jurnal of Earth Sciences, 102, 1701-1716
    • Abeed, Q., Littke, R., Strozyk, F. & Anna K. Uffmann (2013). The Upper JurassicCretaceous Petroleum System of Southern Iraq: a 3D Basin Modelling Study. GeoArabia, v. 18, no. 1, p. 179-200
    • Vackiner, A.A., Antrett, P., Strozyk, F., Stollhofen, H., Back, S., Kukla, P.A., (2012). Reconstructing the Upper Permian sedimentary facies distribution of a tight gas field in Central Europe on the basis of a modern analog field study in the Panamint Valley, western U.S., Geosphere v. 8, p. 1129 - 1145
    • Li, Shiyuan; Abe, Steffen; Strozyk, Frank ; Kukla, Peter A.; van Gent, Heijn, (2012). A method to evaluate long-term rheology of Zechstein salt in the Tertiary, In: Mechanical Behavior of Salt VII- Berest, Ghoreychi. - London : Taylor Francis, 2012
    • Strozyk, F., H. van Gent, J.L. Urai, P.A. Kukla, (2012). 3D seismic study of complex intra-salt deformation: an example from the Zechstein 3 stringer in the western Dutch offshore. In:Alsop,G. I.,Archer, S. G.,Hartley,A. J.,Grant, N. T.&Hodgkinson,R. (eds). Salt Tectonics, Sediments and Prospectivity. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 363, p. 489–501
    • Strozyk, F., M. Strasser, A. Förster, A. Kopf, and K. Huhn, (2010) Slope failure repetition in active margin environments: Constraints from submarine landslides in the Hellenic fore arc, eastern Mediterranean, J. Geophys. Res., 115
    • Strozyk, F., Strasser, M., Krastel,S., Meyer, M., Huhn, K., (2010). Reconstruction of retreating mass wasting in response to progressive slope steepening of the northeastern Cretan margin, eastern Mediterranean, Marine Geology 271, Issues 1- 2, p. 44-54
    • Strozyk, F., Huhn, K., Krastel, S., Strasser, M., Kock, I., Kopf, A.J., (2009). New evidence for massive gravitational mass-transport deposits in the southern Cretan Sea, eastern Mediterranean. Marine Geology 263, p. 97-107
    • Back, S., F. Strozyk, P.A. Kukla and J.J. Lambias, (2008). 3D restoration of original sedimentary geometries in deformed basin fill, onshore Brunei Darussalam, NW Borneo. Basin Research, 20, p. 99-117