Sigurður Reynir Gíslason

Sigurður Reynir Gíslason is a research professor at the University of Iceland's Institute of Earth Sciences. His research group has focused on field and laboratory experiments related to mineral storage of CO2 in basaltic rocks as well as the chemical and physical erosion rates of basaltic terrains and their role in the global carbon cycle. His work has also contributed to the understanding of the environmental impact of volcanic eruptions.

Gíslason was the president of the European Association of Geochemistry, in 2019-2020 and the co-founder and co-director of the CarbFix-project 2006-2020, focusing on carbon capture and subsurface mineral storage. He has been a Visiting Professor at the CNRS in Toulouse France 1994, 1998 and 2006, at the Peter Cook Centre for CCS Research, Melbourne University, Australia 2015, and at the KAUST University, Saudi Arabia 2022-2024.

​He has published books on the global carbon cycle and carbon capture, and more than 150 articles.

He is a Geochemistry Fellow of the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry, and a Fellow of the International Association of Geochemistry. A recipient of the Patterson Award of the Geochemical Society in 2018. The President of Iceland invested me with the Order of the Falcon in January 2020. The Rector of the University of Iceland awarded me the Sigfússon Innovation Award in 2021, and I was a Falling Walls 2021 Winner in Physical Sciences in Belin 2021. In March 2024 I received the title "Eldhugi Kópavogs 2024"

Gíslason received a PhD in geochemistry from the Johns Hopkins University 1985.