Marie Běhounková

Address

Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Geophysics, V Holešovičkách 2, 180 00 Praha 8

E-mail

marie.behounkova@mff.cuni.cz

Tel:

(+420) 951 552 543

ORCID

0000-0001-8227-0685

Researcher ID

C-7839-2013

Studentské projekty

Ledové měsíce a deformační mechanismy ledu

Positions and Education:

since October 2022

Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Geophysics, Prague, Czech Republic, associate professor

2010-September 2022

Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Geophysics, Prague, Czech Republic, researcher

since 2010

Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Geophysics, Prague, Czech Republic, researcher

2008-2009

Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique, Université de Nantes, UMR-CNRS 6112, Nantes, France, postdoctoral fellow

2004-2007

Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Geophysics, Prague, Czech Republic - Ph.D., Global and regional scale modeling of dynamic processes in the Earth’s mantle, supervisor Hana Čížková

2004-2007

Geophysical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic, research assistant

1999-2004

Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Prague, Czech Republic, MSc.

Participation in projects:

April 2022-2024

EIS - Evolving Ice Shells - processes shaping planetary ice shells inferred from numerical modelling (GA22-20388S, Czech Science Foundation, co-investigator)

2020-2022

Exchange processes in the interior of ocean worlds` (Czech-French program BARRANDE 8J20FR005, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, co-nvestigator)

2019-2021

Thermomechanical processes in icy moons – insight from numerical modeling (GA19-10809S, Czech Science Foundation, principal investigator)

2014-2016

Internal evolution of close-in terrestrial exoplanets (14-04145S, Czech Science Foundation, principal investigator)

2010-2013

Contribution of tidal heating to internal geodynamical evolution within planets and satellites (GAP210/10/P306, Czech Science Foundation, postdoc project, principal investigator)

2011-2012

Internal dynamics of solid planets and moons (Czech-French program BARRANDE MEB021129, Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic, principal investigator).

Publications:

  • Běhounková, M. (2025), Europa’s silent seafloor, Nature Astronomy, News & Views, doi:10.1038/s41550-025-02555-1

  • Tobie, G., Auclair-Desrotour, P., Běhounková, M., Kervazo, M., Souček O. and K. Kalousová (2025), Tidal Deformation and Dissipation Processes in Icy Worlds, Space Sci Rev 221, 6. doi:10.1007/s11214-025-01136-y

  • Souček, O., Běhounková, M., Lanzendörfer, M., Tobie, G., and G. Choblet (2024), Variations in plume activity reveal the dynamics of water-filled faults on Enceladus, Nature Communications, doi:10.1038/s41467-024-51677-z. Nature Communities - Behind the paper

  • Walterová, M., Běhounková, M., and Efroimsky, M. (2023), Is There a Semi-Molten Layer at the Base of the Lunar Mantle?, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 128, e2022JE007652, doi:10.1029/2022JE007652

  • Souček, O., Běhounková, M., Schroeder, D. M., Wolfenbarger, N. S., Kalousová, K., Steinbrügge, G., and Soderlund, K. M. (2023), Radar attenuation in Enceladus’ ice shell: Obstacles and opportunities for constraining shell thickness, chemistry, and thermal structure, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 128, e2022JE007626, doi:10.1029/2022JE007626

  • Kervazo, M., Tobie, G., Choblet, G., Dumoulin, C., and Běhounková, M. (2022), Inferring Io’s interior from tidal monitoring, Icarus, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2021.114737

  • Pleinerová Sládková, K., Souček, O., Běhounková, M. (2021), Enceladus’ Tiger Stripes as Frictional Faults: Effect on Stress and Heat Production, Geophys. Res. Lett., 48, e2021GL094849, doi:10.1029/2021GL094849

  • Marusiak, A.G., et al. (2021), Exploration of Icy Ocean Worlds Using Geophysical Approaches, Planet. Sci. J., 2, 150, doi:10.3847/PSJ/ac1272

  • Kervazo, M., Tobie, G., Choblet, G., Dumoulin, C., and Běhounková, M. (2021), Solid tides in Io’s partially molten interior: contribution of bulk dissipation, A&A, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202039433

  • Vance, S., Běhounková, M., Bills, B. G., Byrne, P., Čadek, O., Castillo-Rogez, J., et al. (2021), Distributed Geophysical Exploration of Enceladus and Other Ocean Worlds, Bulletin of the AAS, 53(4), doi:10.3847/25c2cfeb.a07234f4

  • Běhounková, M., Tobie, G., Choblet, G., Kervazo, M., Melwani Daswani, M., Dumoulin, C., and Vance, S.D. (2021), Tidally-induced magmatic Pulses on the oceanic floor of Jupiter’s moon Europa, Geophys. Res. Lett., 48, e2020GL090077, doi:10.1029/2020GL090077

  • Walterová, M., and Běhounková, M. (2020), Thermal and orbital evolution of low-mass exoplanets, The Astrophysical Journal, 900(1), No. 24, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aba8a5

  • Sládková, K., Souček, O., Kalousová, K., and Běhounková, M. (2020), Tidal walking on Europa’s strike-slip faults - insight from numerical modeling, J. Geophys. Res. Planets, 125(8), No. e2019JE006327, doi:10.1029/2019JE006327

  • Čadek, O., Souček, O., and Běhounková, M. (2019), Is Airy Isostasy Applicable to Icy Moons?, Geophys. Res. Lett., 46(24), pages 14299-14306, doi:10.1029/2019GL085903

  • Souček, O., Běhounková, M., Čadek, O., Hron, J., Tobie, G., and Choblet, G. (2019), Tidal dissipation in Enceladus’ uneven, fractured ice shell, Icarus, 328, 218-231, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2019.02.012

  • Čadek, O., Souček, O., Běhounková, M., Choblet, G., Tobie, G., and Hron, J. (2019), Long-term stability of Enceladus’ uneven ice shell, Icarus, 319, 476-484, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2018.10.003

  • Nimmo, F., Barr, A.C., Běhounková, M., McKinnon, W.B. (2018), The thermal and orbital evolution of Enceladus: observational constraints and models in Enceladus and the icy moons of Saturn, Univ. Ariz. Press.

  • Choblet, G., Tobie, G., Sotin, C., Běhounková, M., Čadek, O., Postberg, F., and Souček, O. (2017), Powering prolonged hydrothermal activity inside Enceladus, Nature Astronomy, 1, 841-847, doi:10.1038/s41550-017-0289-8

  • Běhounková, M., Souček, O., Hron, J., and Čadek, O. (2017), Plume Activity and Tidal Deformation on Enceladus Influenced by Faults and Variable Ice Shell Thickness, Astrobiology, 17(9), 941-954.

  • Walterová, M., and Běhounková, M. (2017), Tidal effects in differentiated viscoelastic bodies: a numerical approach, Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, 129: 235, doi:10.1007/s10569-017-9772-x

  • Opletal, P., Prokleška, J., Valenta, J., Proschek, P., Tkáč, V., Tarasenko, R., Běhounková, M., Matoušková, Š., Abd-Elmeguid, M.M., and Sechovský, V. (2017), Quantum ferromagnet in the proximity of the tricritical point, Quantum Materials, 2, article id 29, doi:10.1038/s41535-017-0035-6

  • Čadek, O., Běhounková, M., Tobie, G., Choblet, G. (2017), Viscoelastic relaxation of Enceladus’s ice shell, Icarus, 291, pp. 31-35, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2017.03.011

  • Souček, O., Hron, J., Běhounková, M., and Čadek, O. (2016), Effect of the tiger stripes on the deformation of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43, pp. 7417-7423, doi:10.1002/2016GL069415

  • Čadek, O., Tobie, G., Van Hoolst, T., Massé, M., Choblet, G., Lefevre, A., Mitri, G., Baland, R.-M., Běhounková, M., Bourgeois, O., and Trinh, A. (2016), Enceladus’s internal ocean and ice shell constrained from Cassini gravity, shape, and libration data, Geophys. Res. Lett., 43 (11), pp. 5653-5660, doi:10.1002/2016GL068634

  • Tosi, N., Čadek, O., Běhounková, M., Káňová, M., Plesa, A.-C., Grott, M., Breuer, D., Padovan, S., and Wieczorek, M.A. (2015), Mercury’s low-degree geoid and topography controlled by insolation-driven elastic deformation, Geophys. Res. Lett., 42, doi:10.1002/2015GL065314

  • Běhounková, M., Tobie, G., Choblet, G., Čadek, O., Porco, C., Nimmo, F. (2015). Timing of water plume eruptions on Enceladus explained by interior viscosity structure, Nature Geoscience, 8, 601-604, doi:10.1038/ngeo2475

  • Kuchta, M., Tobie, G., Miljković, K., Běhounková, M., Souček, O., Choblet, G., and Čadek, O. (2015). Despinning and shape evolution of Saturn’s moon Iapetus triggered by a giant impact, Icarus, 252, 454-465, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2015.02.010

  • Běhounková, M., Tobie, G., Choblet, G., and Čadek, O. (2013). Impact of tidal heating on the onset of convection in Enceladus’s ice shell, Icarus, 226, 898-904, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2013.06.033

  • Běhounková, M., Tobie, G., Choblet, G., and Čadek, O. (2012). Tidally-induced melting events as the origin of south-pole activity on Enceladus, Icarus, 219(2), 655-664, doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2012.03.024

  • Běhounková, M., Tobie, G., Choblet, G., and Čadek, O. (2011). Tidally induced thermal runaways on extrasolar Earths: Impact on habitability, The Astrophysical Journal, 728(2), article id 89, doi:10.1088/0004-637X/728/2/89

  • Běhounková, M., Tobie, G., Choblet, G., and Čadek, O. (2010). Coupling mantle convection and tidal dissipation: applications to Enceladus and Earth-like planets, J. Geophys. Res., 115, E09011, doi:10.1029/2009JE003564

  • Běhounková, M., and Choblet, G. (2009). Onset of convection in a basally heated spherical shell, application to planets, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 176, 157-373, doi:10.1016/j.pepi.2009.05.005

  • Běhounková, M., and Čížková, H. (2008). Long-wavelength character of subducted slabs in the lower mantle, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 275, 43-53, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2008.07.059

  • Špičák, A., Hanuš, V., Vaněk, J., and Běhounková, M. (2007). Internal tectonic structure of the Central American Wadati-Benioff zone based on analysis of aftershock sequences, J. Geophys. Res., 112, B09304, doi:10.1029/2006JB004318

  • Běhounková, M., Čížková, H., Matyska, C., Yuen, D.A., and Wang, M. (2007). Resolution Tests of 3-D Convection Models by Travel-time Tomography: Effects of Rayleigh Number and Regular vs. Irregular Parameterization, Geophys. J. Int., 170, 401-416, doi:10.1111/j.1365-246X.2007.03458.x

  • Běhounková, M., Čížková, H., and Matyska, C. (2005). Resolution tests of global geodynamic models by travel-time tomography, Studia geoph. et geod., 49, 343-363, doi:10.1007/s11200-005-0014-4

Outreach/popularization:

  • Souček, O., Běhounková, M., and K. Kalousová (2025), Ledovce na Zemi a ve Sluneční soustavě. Československý časopis pro fyziku 01/25, pdf

  • Běhounková, M. (2016), Ledové měsíce obřích planet z geofyzikálního pohledu, Pokroky matematiky, fyziky a astronomie 61, 214-233.