Curriculum vitae of Thomas Ruedas

• Postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution of Washington (since 09/2006)
• Postdoctoral project researcher at the Danish Lithosphere Centre (09/2003-12/2004) and the Axiomlab at the Geological Institute of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark (01/2005-08/2005); freelance research associate thereafter (09/2005-08/2006)
• Research associate (04/1998-04/2002)/PhD student (04/1998-08/2003) in the geodynamics group at the Institute of Meteorology and Geophysics (now Dept. of Geophysics, Institute of Geosciences) of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harro Schmeling
• Associated with the applied seismics group at the Institute of Geophysics at the University of Hamburg, Germany, extending the work of my diploma thesis (10/1997-03/1998)
• Studies of geophysics at the University of Hamburg (10/1991-09/1997); diploma in the Applied Geophysics Group of its Institute for Geophysics

Publications of Thomas Ruedas

• Refereed articles
• Ruedas, T., Schmeling, H. (2008): On the orientation of tensile dikes in a ridge-centered plume; Tectonophys. 447(1-4), special volume "Plate motion and crustal processes in and around Iceland" ed. by C. Riedel and J. Ebbing, 19-30 (free PDF or published version)
• Ruedas, T., Schmeling, H. (2008): Kinematic models for the thickness of oceanic crust at and near mid-oceanic spreading centers; J. Geophys. Res. (B1), B01402, doi:10.1029/2006JB004746 (free PDF and publisher's page
• Ruedas, T., Marquart, G., Schmeling, H. (2007): Iceland: The current picture of a ridge-centered mantle plume; in: "Mantle plumes - A multidisciplinary approach", edited by J.R.R. Ritter and U.R. Christensen, pp.71-126, Springer (free PDF and publisher's page)
• Ruedas, T. (2006): Dynamics, crustal thicknesses, seismic anomalies, and electrical conductivities in dry and hydrous ridge-centered plumes; Phys. Earth Planet. Int. 155(1-2), 16-41 (free PDF or published version)
• Kreutzmann, A., Schmeling, H., Junge, A., Ruedas, T., Marquart, G., Bjarnason, I. (2004): Temperature and melting of a ridge-centered plume with application to Iceland. Part II: Predictions for electromagnetic and seismic observables; Geophys. J. Int. 159(3), 1097-1111 (published version)
• Ruedas, T., Schmeling, H., Marquart, G., Kreutzmann, A., Junge, A. (2004): Temperature and melting of a ridge-centered plume with application to Iceland. Part I: Dynamics and crust production; Geophys. J. Int. 158(2), 729-743 (free PDF or published version)
• Schmeling, H., Marquart, G., Ruedas, T. (2003): Pressure- and temperature-dependent thermal expansivity and the effect on mantle convection and surface observables, Geophys. J. Int. 154(1), 224-229 (free PDF or published version)
• Other articles, reports, theses
• Schmeling, H., Junge, A., Marquart, G., Ruedas, T., Kreutzmann, A. (2002): Island, Vulkaninsel auf dem Mittelatlantischen Rücken: Erkundung der tiefen Ursachen durch geophysikalische Modellierungen; in A. Junge (ed.): Geowissenschaften in Frankfurt, Kleine Senckenberg-Reihe, vol. 43, pp. 161-170. E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart
• Ruedas, T., Teßmer, E. (1998): 2D seismic modeling in transversely isotropic media with a Chebyshev-Fourier method in consideration of the free surface and the surface/grid interface topography; in: WIT Report No.1 (1997), pp. 227-233, WIT Consortium, Karlsruhe/Hamburg
• Ruedas, T. (2004): Convection and Melting Processes in a Mantle Plume under a Spreading Ridge, with Application to the Iceland Plume. PhD thesis, University of Frankfurt/Main; published by Logos Verlag, Berlin
• Ruedas, T. (1997): Development of a program for two-dimensional seismic modelling for transversally isotropic media with a Chebyshev-Fourier method, incorporating the free surface with topography. Diploma thesis, University of Hamburg, (in german)
• Recent conference abstracts (last 4 years)
• Ruedas, T., Tackley, P. J. (2007): Phase transition evolution and convection style in the martian mantle. Poster presented at the AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 2007 [Eos Trans. AGU, 88(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract P41A-0191, 2007]. (Online version of poster)
• Ruedas, T. (2005): Plume convection models with realistic mantle mineralogy, and derivation of seismic velocities. Poster presented at the 2nd General Assembly of the EGU, Vienna [Geophys. Res. Abstr., vol.7, 02876, 2005]
• Ruedas, T. (2004): Convection models of the heterogeneous Iceland plume. Poster presented at the Goldschmidt Conference 2004, Copenhagen [Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta, Conference Supplement, p. A589, Abstract 5.2.P08, 2004] and on the German Geodynamics Workshop 2004, Hamburg.
• Ruedas, T., Schmeling, H. (2003): Deriving seismic anomalies and electrical conductivities from mantle convection models: effects of melting and water content. Poster presented at the AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, 2003 [Eos Trans. AGU, 84(46), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract T41C-0236, 2003].
• Ruedas, T., Schmeling, H., Marquart, G. (2003): The effect of hydrous melting on plume dynamics. Poster presented at the 8th European Workshop on Numerical Modeling of Lithosphere and Mantle Dynamics, Hrubá Skála, Czech Republic (different from next item)
• Ruedas, T., Schmeling, H., Marquart, G. (2003): The effect of hydrous melting on plume dynamics. Poster presented at the EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly, Nice, 2003 [Geophys. Res. Abstr. 5, EAE03-A-14585, 2003]
• Ruedas, T., Kreutzmann, A., Schmeling, H., Junge, A., Marquart, G. (2003): Melting and Dynamics of a Ridge-Centered Plume and the Effect on Geophysical Observables with Application to Iceland. Poster presented at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the German Geophysical Society, Jena

Last update: 14 Feb 2008