SHORT CV FOR SVANTE BJÖRCK

DR DEGREE: 22/5 1979 at Lund University (LU) in Quaternary Geology, based on a Master Sc. degree in Mathematics, Geology, Physical Oceanography and Environmental Science.

POST-DOC: Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, Minneapolis, USA, June 1981-May 1982.

DOCENTSHIP AWARDED: June 1981.

CURRENT POSITION (since 2000): Professor Chair at LU, head of Quaternary Sciences.

PREVIOUS RELEVANT POSITIONS DURING THE LAST 35 YEARS:

1973: Worked as a geologist and hydrologist for the Environmental Protection Board of the province of Halland.

1973-74: Worked with Quaternary geological mapping for SGU for 5 months.

1975-79: PhD scholarship at LU

May 1979-Dec 1979: Earth Science expert for environmental protection (geologic objects).

January 1980-May 1981: Several short temporary positions at LU.

June 1981-May 1982: NFR post-doc in Twin Cities, USA.

June 1982-December 1987: Forskarassistent (Senior Research assistant) at LU.

January 1988-December 1993: Higher Research position financed by NFR/VR.

January 1994-June 1994: University lecturer at LU.

July 1994-June 2000: Professor Chair in Quaternary Geology at the Geological Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark.

PERSONS AWARDED DOCTORATES, WITH THE APPLICANT AS MAIN SUPERVISOR

G. Lemdahl (1988), B. Liedberg-Jönsson (1988), N-O. Svensson (1989), D. Hammarlund (1994), H. Jiang (1996), M. Rundgren (1997), C. S. Andresen (2004), C. Sparrenbom-Jönsson (2006), R. de Jong (2007) and K. Ljung (2007), J. Striberger (2011).

Besides these I was co-supervisor for 6 other PhD theses and main supervisor for 14 Danish Cand. Sci. theses. At the moment I am co-supervisor for 8 PhD students.

POST-DOCs (working with/supervised by/employed by the applicant and his projects)

James Almendinger, 1989-90; Ole Bennike, 1993-1994; Carsten Israelson, 1995-1999; Tine Rasmussen, 1995-2000; Torben Fronvald, 1997-1999; Hui Jiang, 1997-2002; Peter Rosén, 2000-2003; Raimund Muscheler, 2002-2004; Tammy Rittenour, 2003-2004; Camilla Andresen, 2003-2005; Kristian Schoning, 2004-2006; Ingmar Unkel, 2006-2008; Sofia Holmgren, 2009-2012; Nathalie van der Putten, 2010-2012.

HONOURS/PRICES:

Elected member of the Royal Fysiographic Society in 1995.

Received teaching price (25.000 DKK) by the Science Faculty in Copenhagen in 1998.

Elected member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences (KVA) in 2002.

Received the Assar Hadding price (260.000 SEK) in 2004, awarded every 3^rd year to a Swedish geologist.

Internationally evaluated 2006 by VR as ‘Outstanding Swedish Quaternary Geologist’.

Chosen as the “Geologist of the Year” (Årets Geolog) in 2006 by Sveriges Naturvetarförbund.

Received the price “Björkénska Priset” (95.000 SEK) in Uppsala 2007 awarded every 4^th year to a chemist, mineralogist or a geologist.

FIELD EXPEDITIONS/FIELD WORK OUTSIDE MAINLAND SCANDINAVIA

1981: Minnesota, NW Ontario. 1982: Minnesota, South and N Dakota. 1984: Minnesota. 1986: Minnesota. 1989: Antarctic Peninsula. 1990: Iceland and E Greenland. 1991: Iceland. 1992: NE Greenland and Iceland. 1993: Antarctic Peninsula. 1995: Faeroe Islands. 1997: Faeroe Islands. 1998: Faeroe Islands. 1999: S Greenland. 2001: The Azores, Romania and S Greenland. 2002: Grenada (Caribbean) and Faroe Islands. 2003: Tristan da Cunha Island group and Romania. 2004: Iceland. 2005: Iceland and Isla de Los Estados (Tierra del Fuego). 2006: Romania, Hungary and Iceland. 2007: Iceland. 2010: Tristan da Cunha. 2011: Chile

EXPERIENCE AS RESEARCH EVALUATOR ETC DURING THE LAST 15 YRS

1993-ongoing: Regularly external evaluator for international research bodies such as ERC; NSF (US), NERC (GB) and the Canadian, Finnish, Dutch, Norwegian and Belgian research councils.

1997-2004: Served as a member of the Geoscience evaluation board for the Swedish Research Council (NFR and VR)

2002-ongoing: Evaluator of research proposals for the Royal Academy of Science

2007-2009: Member of NT at VR, evaluated post-doc applications etc

2010-2012: Member and chair of NT

MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARDS

Boreas, Climate Dynamics, Quaternary Science Reviews, Journal of Quaternary Sciences, Central European Journal of Geosciences.

EXTERNALLY FUNDED LARGER RESEARCH PROJECTS SINCE 1990

1989-92: "Analysis of the uplift history within the glaciation area of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet, based on a large data base." NFR and National Board For Spent Nuclear Fuel (SKN).

1989-91: "Climatic history within, and around, the southern glaciation area of the Scandinavian Ice Sheet during its deglaciation. NFR.

1991-92: "Calibration of the Late Weichselian ¹⁴C chronology, based on accelerator (AMS) datings of the Swedish Time Scale (varved clay) including palaeoclimatic analysis of the gotiglacial varves". NFR

1990-94: "Stratigraphic analysis of polar lake sediments". NFR.

1995: “High-resolution stratigraphic/palaeoclimatic studies of the last glacial/interglacial transition in Denmark”. SNF (Danish Natural Science Research Council).

1996-98: “Climate transitions of the last interglacial-glacial-interglacial cycle in the North Atlantic region”. SNF

1999-2000: “Natural climate forcing and environmental variability of the last 200.000 years in the NE Atlantic region”. SNF

2001-2005: “An interhemispheric transect: paleoclimatic analyses of late Quaternary lacustrine and terrestrial records of Atlantic islands (ATLANTIS)”. VR

2001: “Relative sea level studies in southern Greenland – the solution of the postglacial history of the Greenland Ice Sheet”. The Crafoord Foundation.

2002: “AMS-apparatur för kol-14 analyser inom naturvetenskaplig, medicinsk och arkeologisk forskning”. VR and Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse.

2006-2008: ”Vatnajökull melt-water discharge variability – An unexplored Holocene climate sensor in the Nordic Sea region”. VR

2008-2017: “Lund Centre for studies of Carbon Cycle and Climate Interaction (LUCCI), co-applicant on a Linneaus grant. VR

2009-2011: “The Last Termination in the central South Atlantic”. VR

2010-2012: Support to research as a member of the NT board. VR