Curriculum Vitae           

Sigurður Reynir Gíslason            www.raunvis.hi.is/~sigrg/

Origin

Icelandic, born October 9, 1957 

Education

Johns Hopkins University, USA, 1980-1985. Ph.D. in Geochemistry 1985.

Ph.D: Meteoric water-basalt interactions: A field and laboratory study.

University of Iceland, 1977-1980. B.Sc. in Geology 1980. 

Awards

In August 2010, The International Association of GeoChemistry presented the IAGC Certificate of Recognition to Sigurdur Gíslason, University of Iceland for insightful research on basalt weathering and its importance in the long-term carbon cycle, and for serving IAGC as leader of the IAGC Working Group on Geochemistry of the Earth’s Surface.

Present position

A research professor and chairman of the aquatic geochemistry group at the University of Iceland's Institute of Earth Sciences, where he studies water/rock, water/air and water/biomass interactions by field and laboratory experimental studies. Gíslason´s currently serves on the editorial board of Chemical Geology, the journal and the European Association for Geochemistry, has been a member of the association's board of directors, and is a former chairman of The Geochemistry of The Earth Surface (GES), a working group of the International Association of GeoChemistry. He is the chairman of the Scientific Steering Committee for the carbon sequestering in basaltic rocks initiative; Carb-fix (carbfix.com).

Gíslason’s major scientific contributions are 1) measurement of the dissolution rates and dissolution mechanisms of volcanic glasses as a function of glass composition, aqueous solution composition and temperature, 2) quantifying the chemical/physical erosion rates of basaltic terrains and their contribution to the global carbon cycle and 3) measuring the environmental effects of volcanic eruptions.

Gíslason has managed fifth, sixth and seventh framework EU funded research; FP5 RTN QDPSS, FP6 RTN MIN-GRO, FP7 ITN DELTA-MIN, FP7-ENERGY-2011-1-283148 CarbFix.

Gíslason has trained three Postdoctoral Fellows and five PhD Students over the last 10 years and is currently supervising six PhD students.  He has been external examiner of PhD studies at Yale USA, Stockholm Sweden, Toulouse France, Open University UK, Aberdeen Scotland, Madrid Spain, Oslo Norway, Southampton UK.

Gíslason has served on the Goldschmidt award committee and the Geochemical Fellows committee of the Geochemical Society and the Houtermans- and Urey- medal committee of the European Association for Geochemistry.

Gíslason has organized international conferences in Crete Greece 1998, Reykjavík Iceland in 1999, Granada Spain in 2000, Reykjavík Iceland in 2009.