The Award Winner 2023
The committee for the Else Ragnhild Neumann Award for Women in Geosciences believes that Sofia Kjellman’s work deserves recognition and that Sofia’s work makes a substantial contribution by using advanced methods to estimate the impact of precipitation seasonality to climate.
Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at UiT The Arctic University of Norway working in the field terrestrial Quaternary geology and paleoclimatology, focusing on Arctic sedimentary biomarkers and stable isotope proxies. She received her PhD at UiT in September 2022 in Quaternary geology and paleoclimate.
See also: About the laureate
A very promising young scientist
The evaluation committee states that:
"Dr. Sofia Elisabeth Kjellman has published 11 papers (3 as a first author), with another first author manuscript in preparation and seems to be very active in the geoscientific community with organising various workshops and other activities. It is laudable to see that Dr. Sofia Kjellman is disseminating her research output to the lay audience and schools. Her involvement in science communication (see her article in Nature in 2019), and justice, equity, diversity and inclusion at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and in the wider community is commended by the award committee."
The Award Commitee
This year's award committee consisted of the three following members:
- Professor Carmen Gaina (PHAB, University of Oslo)
- Director Brit Lisa Skjelkvåle (Natural History Museum, University of Oslo)
- Professor Trond H. Torsvik (Director of PHAB, University of Oslo)