Evaluation & Assessment Duties

 

 

• 2011 – ongoing: Chief Examiner for Petrology at Uppsala University. I am responsible for keeping and improving the standard of petrology education at UU, which involves the inspection and approval of all BSc and MSc thesis from UU in this field.

 

• 2011 – ongoing: Steering Committee Member for ESF network MeMoVolc (www.esf.org) to represent Sweden (co-funded by the Swedish Science Foundation - VR). The network distributes a total of ~500,000 Euro for researcher mobility in the field of volcanology.

  

• 2012/13: Panel Member National Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering, Finland (Academy of Finland).

   

• 2011: Research Program Assessor for 2010 research and strategy report of LKAB, Sweden’s governmental owned nuclear waste storage company.

  

• 2006, 2010: Independent Assessor for UNESCO regarding applications for Teide (Tenerife) and Auvergne (France) to become Natural World Heritage Sites.


2005: Neutral Observer for EC project ’Erupt’ coordinated by Prof. J. Davidson, Durham University, UK.


• 2005 – ongoing: Frequent Proposal Reviewer for e.g. NSF (USA), NERC (UK), Academy of Findland, Swiss Science Foundation, European Science Foundation (ESF), UNESCO and several private trusts and foundations.


 

 

 

- Scientific Review Activities -

 

2005 - ongoing: Reviewer for >40 scientific manuscripts

• Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research (5),

• Journal of the Geological Society of London (5),
• Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology (5),
South African Journal of Earth Sciences (1),
• Geological Society of America Bulletin (2),
• European Journal of Mineralogy (3),
• Bulletin of Volcanology (2),

• Mineralogical Magazine (1),

• Earth Sciences History (1),

• Canadian Mineralogist (1),

• American Mineralogist (1),

• Geological Magazine (1),

• Journal of Petrology (6),
• Scientific Reports (2),
• Terra Nova (1),
• Elements (1),
• Geology (2), and

• Lithos (3).

 

2001 - 2007: Book Reviewer for “Spektrum der Wissenschaft“ - German Branch of Scientific American (5 reviews).

 

 

 

 

- Promotions and Thesis Assessor -

 

Promotion Assessor
2012: Dr. R. Gertisser (Lecturer to Senior Lecturer), Keele University, UK.
• 2011: Prof. C. Tegner (Assoc. Prof. to Full Professor), Aarhus University, Denmark.

 

Thesis Assessor

PhD
• 2014: Simon Drake (University of London, Birkbeck College, UK) Explosive volcanism in the British Palaeogene Igneous Province.

• 2013: Charlotte Dyhr (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Development of back-arc volcanism in Mendoza, Argentina.

• 2012: Gilles Charreteur (University of Aarhus, Denmark) Silicic rocks at Thingmuli volcano, Iceland.
• 2010: Sigurjon B. Thorarinsson (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Silicic volcanism in N-Greenland.
• 2010: Helena Bergman (PhD lic., Stockholm University, Sweden) Post-deformational equilibration of crystaline matter; Ballachulish, Scotland.

• 2003: Karl Roa (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Structural evolution of La Palma, Canary Islands.

 

MSc
• 2014 Kristian Agasøster Haaga (University of Bergen, Norway) Petrogenesis of Jan Mayen Ridge magmas in space and time.

• 2014 Stefan Andersson (Uppsala University, Sweden) Deformation, metamorphism and remobilisation at the Hornkullen plymetallic deposit, western Bergslagen, Sweden.

•  2014 John Lundh (Uppsala University, Sweden) A lithogeochemical study of northern Sweden and of the Kiruna and Malmberget iron-apatite ores.

• 2014 Åke Rosen (Uppsala University, Sweden) Metamorphic evolution of the Middle Seve Nappe in the Snasahögara area, Scandinavian Caledonides.

• 2014: Fredrik Sahlström (Uppsala University, Sweden) Stable isotope systematics of skarn-hosted REE-silicate-magnetite mineralisations in central Bergslagen, Sweden.

• 2012: Marzenna Kohut (Uppsala University, Sweden) Residence time of magmas at Nola seamount, Cape Verde.

• 2011: David Nielsson (Uppsala University, Sweden) Reconstructing the crust beneath Cape Verde using xenolith.

• 2011: Jingjing Jiao (Uppsala University, Sweden) Petrography and Geochemistry through the Blötberget Apatite-Iron Oxide Deposit, Bergslagen, South-Central Sweden.
• 2009: Catherine Curtis (University of Cape Town, South Africa) Low δ-oxygen magmas at Koegel Fontein ring complex, South Africa.

• 2004 – 2007: Member of MSc-PhD transfer committee for Earth Sciences at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (evaluation of approx. 10 students/year).

 

 

 

 

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