Martin Jakobsson Professor of Marine geology and geophysics
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Name and title: Martin JakobssonProfessor of Marine geology and geophysics
Workplace: Department of Geological Sciences Länk till annan webbplats.
Visiting address Room R 209Svante Arrheniusväg 8 C, Geohuset
Postal address Institutionen för geologiska vetenskaper106 91 Stockholm
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About me
Martin Jakobsson completed his PhD in 2000 at the Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm University. He subsequently joined the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire, USA, as a research scientist. In April 2004, he returned to Stockholm University for an Associate Professor position at the Department of Geological Sciences. From November 2004, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded him five years of full-time research as an Academy Fellow, supported by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation.
He was promoted to full Professor of Marine Geology and Geophysics at Stockholm University in September 2009. He has served as Head of the Department of Geological Sciences (2012–2018), Dean of Earth Science (2021–2023), and since 2024 as one of three Deputy Vice Presidents of Stockholm University with responsibility for the Science Academic Area.
He has held a Professor II position at the University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) since 2011 and was elected a member of the Norwegian Scientific Academy for Polar Research in 2016. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Class V for Geoscience, elected him as a member in 2012, and he served as the Academy’s 1st Vice President between 2016 and 2019. He also served as Vice Chair of the UNESCO-IOC-IHO General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) from 2013 to 2020 and was lead author of the Road Map for Future Ocean Floor Mapping, which led to the global Nippon Foundation–GEBCO Seabed 2030 initiative to map the entire world ocean by 2030. In 2024, he was appointed Wallenberg Scholar with the project “Using AI to predict the retreat of glaciers”.
Complete CV is available as PDF
His research focuses on the glacial history of the Arctic Ocean and the dynamics of the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets, with particular emphasis on ice–ocean interactions, submarine glacial landforms, and acoustic geophysical seafloor mapping. His work contributes to understanding ice-sheet stability and implications for past and future sea-level rise. He has spent over one year at sea aboard open-ocean research vessels, including three expeditions to the North Pole (1996, 2004, 2005). He has served as Co-Chief Scientist on nine international ocean expeditions with Swedish icebreaker Oden and as Chief Scientist on numerous Baltic Sea missions, several aboard Stockholm University’s RV Electra, including leading the surveys of the MS Estonia wreck site for the Swedish The Swedish Accident Investigation Authority in 2021.
Publication is available as a PDF
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