Friðgeir Grímsson, Privatdoz. MSc PhD

Senior Scientist
Ground floor, room 3
t: +43 (0)1 4277-540 10
m: fridgeir.grimsson@univie.ac.at

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Media contributions

Research interests

  • Palynology
  • Paleopalynology
  • Botany
  • Paleobotany
  • Paleophytogeography

My research interests comprise plant evolution, vegetation differentiation, and climate development in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres during the Late Cretaceous and Cenozoic. I use evidence from the macrofossil record (mostly leaves) and from the record of dispersed pollen and spores to resolve the origin, diversification, and dispersal of plant lineages, to trace past distribution and biogeographic patterns of various plant groups and major plant functional groups, to reconstruct regional and large-scale vegetation changes, and, eventually, to evaluate past climate situations and possible climate changes during the past ca. 100 million years. Key areas of my research have been the Arctic and Subarctic regions and mid-latitude regions in Asia, North America and Europe. My current area of focus is Western and Central Europe, the Mediterranean region, and the African continent.

Projects

 Teaching

Current Courses

 Cooperations

  • Department of Paleontology, University of Vienna, Austria
  • Department of Paleobiology, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm
  • Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Germany
  • Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
  • Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich, Switzerland
  • Roy M. Huffington Department of Earth Sciences, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA
  • Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Department of Plant Sciences, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa
  • Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Departments of Botany and Geology & Geophysics, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA
  • Naturalis Biodiversity Center, National Herbarium of the Netherlands, Leiden
  • Don Harrington Discovery Center, 1200 Streit Drive, Amarillo, TX, 79106, USA

 Curriculum Vitae

Current position

  • 2021– Senior Scientist, Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Austria.

Education

  • 2015 Venia Docendi (Priv.-Doz.)/Doctor Habilitatus (Dr. habil.) in Paleontology/Paleobotany. University of Vienna, Austria. Thesis: Unravelling Upper Cretaceous and Cainozoic vegetation patterns from Northern Hemispheric palynofloras.
  • 2007 Doctor of Philosophy (Dr. phil.) in Geology/Paleobotany. University of Iceland, Reykjavík. Thesis: The Miocene floras of Iceland: origin and evolution of fossil floras from north-west and western Iceland, 15 to 6 Ma.
  • 2002 Master of Science (MS) in Geology/Paleobotany. University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Thesis: The Hreðavatn Member of the Hreðavatn-Stafholt Formation and its fossil flora.
  • 1999 Bachelor of Science (BS) in Geology/Paleobotany. University of Iceland, Reykjavík. Thesis: Þrimilsdalur: an ancient flora in an aesthetic valley.

Scientific career

  • 2018–2021 Research scientist, senior postdoctoral position, Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna, Austria
  • 2013–2014 Assistant Professor, Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavík
  • 2010–2018 Research scientist, senior postdoctoral position, Department of Paleontology, University of Vienna, Austria
  • 2007–2009 Research scientist, postdoctoral position, Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavík
  • 2002–2009 Lecturer, Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavík
  • 2002–2007 Teacher, Menntaskólinn við Sund (Secondary School, College), Reykjavík

 

Publications

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2023

Malaikanok, P., Grimsson, F., Denk, T., & Phuphumirat, W. (2023). Community assembly of tropical Fagaceae-dominated forests in Thailand dates back at least to the Late Palaeogene. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 202(1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1093/botlinnean/boac075
Geier, C., Bouchal, J. M., Ulrich, S., Uhl, D., Wappler, T., Wedmann, S., Zetter, R., & Grimsson, F. (2023). Collecting in situ/adhered pollen from fossil compressed angiosperm flowers. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 310, 1-6. Article 104831. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2022.104831
Vieira, M., Grímsson, F., Denk, T., & Zetter, R. (2023). Niche evolution versus niche conservatism and habitat loss determine persistence and extirpation in late Neogene European Fagaceae. Quaternary Science Reviews, 300, Article 107896. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107896
Pan, A. D., Jacobs, B. F., Bush, R. T., de la Estrella, M., Grímsson, F., Herendeen, P. S., van der Burgt, X. M., & Currano, E. D. (2023). First evidence of a monodominant (Englerodendron, Amherstieae, Detarioideae, Leguminosae) tropical moist forest from the early Miocene (21.73 Ma) of Ethiopia. PLoS ONE, 18(1), Article e0279491. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279491
Dirr, L., Bastl, K., Bastl, M., Berger, M., Berger, U., & Grimsson, F. (2023). Der Ragweed Finder: Citizen-Science ergänzt Allergenvermeidung. Allergo Journal International, 32, 188. Article P2.04. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40629-023-00269-2
Dirr, L., Bouchal, J. M., Bastl, K., Bastl, M., Berger, M., Berger, U., & Grimsson, F. (2023). Der Ragweed Finder: Von der Idee zum anerkannten Meldesystem. In CitSci Helvetia’23: Die zweite Schweizer Citizen-Science-Konferenz «Citizen Science – Wirkung durch Partizpiation», Detailprogramm (pp. 12)
Dirr, L., Bastl, K., Bastl, M., Bouchal, J. M., Berger, M., Berger, U., & Grimsson, F. (2023). Efficacy of Astragalus membranaceus as a food supplement for pollen allergy sufferers –Participant symptoms compared with crowd-sourced data. Allergy: European journal of allergy and immunology, 78(S112), 444. Article 000922. https://doi.org/10.1111/all.15925
Geier, C., Bouchal, J. M., Ulrich, S., Wappler, T., & Grimsson, F. (2023). Fossil Onagraceae flower and insects with in situ or adhered pollen from the Eocene of Eckfeld, Germany. In Abstract EGU23 Article EGU23-6116 https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-6116
Halbwachs, H., Grimsson, F., Potapova, M., Dolezych, M., & LePage, B. (2023). Microfossils in resin from the middle Eocene Buchanan Lake Formation, Napartulik, Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canada. Palynology, 47(1), 1-13. Article 2127956. https://doi.org/10.1080/01916122.2022.2127956
Bouchal, J. M., Geier, C., Ulrich, S., Wilde, V., Lenz, O. K., Zetter, R., & Grimsson, F. (2023). Revisiting the Messel palynoflora using a combined LM and SEM approach. In Abstracts of the European Geosciences Union General Assembly (Vol. 2023) https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-6499
Geier, C., Bouchal, J. M., Nel, A., Ngo-Muller, V., Schönenberger, J., Uhl, D., Ulrich, S., Wappler, T., Wedmann, S., & Grimsson, F. (2023). The history of European Paleogene flower-insect interactions unraveled using fossil flowers and insects and their associated pollen grains. In 24th Annual Meeting of the Society of Biological Systematics: Programme and Abstracts (pp. 21-22)
Geier, C., Bouchal, J. M., Nel, A., Ngo-Muller, V., Oberleitner, S., Uhl, D., Ulrich, S., Wappler, T., Wedmann, S., Zimmermann, D., & Grimsson, F. (2023). Tilioideae-Anthophila interactions in the Cenozoic of Europe. In Life and Planet 2023: Full Programme with Abstracts (pp. 63-64)
Dirr, L., Bouchal, J. M., Bastl, K., Bastl, M., Berger, U., & Grimsson, F. (2023). 5 Years Ragweed Finder: From the Idea to the Official Reporting Tool of Ambrosia artemisiifolia. Proceedings of Science, 442. https://doi.org/10.22323/1.442.0004

2022

Adroit, B., Grimsson, F., Suc, J.-P., Escarguel, G., Zetter, R., Bouchal, J. M., Fauquette, S., Zhuang, X., & Djamali, M. (2022). Are morphological characteristics of Parrotia (Hamamelidaceae) pollen species diagnostic? Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 307, Article 104776. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2022.104776
Geier, C., Bouchal, J. M., Ulrich, S., Gross, M., Zetter, R., Denk, T., & Grimsson, F. (2022). Paleovegetation and paleoclimate inferences of the early late Sarmatian palynoflora from the Gleisdorf Fm. at Gratkorn, Styria, Austria. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 307, Article 104767. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2022.104767
Gao, J., Engel, M. S., Grimsson, F., Gu, L., Ren, D., & Gao, T.-P. (2022). The first xiphydriid wood wasp in Cretaceous amber (Hymenoptera: Xiphydriidae) and a potential association with Cycadales. Fossil record, 24(2), 445-453. https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-24-445-2022
Vieira, M., Zetter, R., Coiro, M., & Grimsson, F. (2022). Pliocene Lythrum (loosestrife, Lythraceae) pollen from Portugal and the Neogene establishment of European lineages. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 296, Article 104548. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2021.104548
Bao, T., Grimsson, F., Beutel, R. G., Wedmann, S., Seyfullah, L., Bao, L., & Jarzembowski, E. A. (2022). Was the kateretid beetle Pelretes really a Cretaceous angiosperm pollinator? Nature Plants, 8(1), 38–40. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-021-01044-3
Geier, C., Bouchal, J. M., Wappler, T., & Grimsson, F. (2022). Linking fossil angiosperm flowers and insects using in-situ and adhered pollen. In S. McLoughlin (Ed.), 11th European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference: Abstracts, Program, and Proceedings Article O.052.
Wuttke, M., Poschmann, M. J., Bouchal, J. M., Geier, C., Ulrich, S., Grimsson, F., & Wappler, T. (2022). Pollen-feeding in a late Oligocene giant pelobatid tadpole from Lake Enspel (Westerwald Mountains, Germany). In Datz-Symposium & 30th International Workshop on Plant Taphonony: Program, Abstracts, Information (pp. 31).
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