Rate My Professor Hilmar Gudmundsson

Hilmar Gudmundsson is Professor in the School of Geography and Natural Sciences at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, where he has been a full professor since 2018. He earned two BSc degrees, one in Physics and another in Geophysics, from the University of Iceland, followed by a Diploma in Physics (Dipl. Phys. ETH) from ETH Zurich in 1989 and a PhD in glaciology from ETH Zurich in 1994. In 2004, he submitted his habilitation to ETH Zurich and was awarded the Venia Legendi, lecturing there as a Privatdocent. His career trajectory includes a visiting scholarship at the University of Washington, Seattle, from late 1994 to 1995, a lectureship at ETH Zurich until 2001—during which he served as Head of Research in the Glaciology section from 1998 to 2001—and a position as research scientist at the British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK, from 2001 to 2018. Gudmundsson has held prominent leadership positions, including President of the European Geosciences Union Division for Cryospheric Sciences from 2009 to 2013 and Vice-President of the International Glaciological Society from 2018 to 2020. He currently leads Northumbria University's research peak of excellence, The Future of Ice on Earth, the UK's largest university group dedicated to numerical modelling of large ice sheets and process studies on glacier dynamics and their roles in the climate system.