Academic History
Current position
Temporary faculty (20%), Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Professor, University of Oslo (since 9/2020)
Former academic positions
2007 - 2020 Professor of Geophysics, Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; (25% teaching)
2013-2018 Guest Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Sweden
2002-2007 Research fellow at Stockholm University
8/2001-12/2001 Post-doc at Department of Meteorology,Stockholm University
1/1998-7/2001 Researcher at Climate Impact Research Center, Kiruna, Sweden
Education
1998 PhD (hydrology/glaciology), ETH Zurich, Switzerland
1991 'Diplom' (M.Sc.) in hydrology (undergraduate minors in physics and chemistry), Freiburg University, Germany
1991 'Staatsexamen' (M.A.) in physical education/geography (high-school teaching degree), Freiburg University, Germany
1987 B.Sc., Brock University, Canada (year abroad)
Selected professional service
Member of Advisory Board of Glacier Mass Balance Intercomparison Exercise (GlaMBIE), (2022 - 2026)
Member of the External Science Advisory Board of Tarfala Research Station of Stockholm University, Sweden (2022 - 2026)
Member of Advisory Board of the Greenland Ice Sheet Ocean Science Network (GRISO), 2021-2025
Co-chair of the Working Group on Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI) and its role in future glacier monitoring and GLIMS (2020-2023)
Co-chair of the Working Group on ‘Regional Assessments of Glacier Mass Change’ (RAGMAC), 2020-2023
Chair of the Ad-hoc committee on governance changes of the International Glaciological Society (IGS), 6/2018-10/2021
Coordinating Lead Author of IPCC Special Report on the Oceans and the Cryosphere in a Warming Climate (2017-2019)
President of the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS) (2017 - 2021); president-elect (2015-2017); immediate past-president (2021-2023)
Co-chair of Targeted Activity under CliC: Glacier Model Intercomparison (GlacierMIP) (2015-2022)
Chief Editor of Frontiers in Earth Science - Cryospheric Sciences (1/2015-12/2020)
Co-chair of working group of the International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS) on the Randolph Glacier Inventory and infrastructure for glacier monitoring, (2014-2018)
Vice president of the International Glaciological Society (IGS) (2012-2015)
Elective member of the council of the International Glaciological Society (IGS) (2008-2016)
Secretary of the International Commission on Snow and Ice Hydrology (2005-2015)
Scientific editor of Journal of Glaciology (2005-2011)
Member of editorial board of Geografiska Annaler (2003-2009 )
Contributing author to IPCC-4 (2007) and IPCC-5 (2013)
Member of working group on 'Mass-balance terminology and methods' by International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (2008-2011)
Lead author of glacier chapter of Arctic Council's Project on Climate Change and the Arctic Cryosphere (SWIPA), published in 2012
Awards
2023 Honorary Professor at Uppsala University, Sweden
2022 Julia and Johannes Weertman Medal by the European Geosciences Union (EGU)
2021 Richardson Medal by the International Glaciological Society (IGS)
Last update: January 2023