Friðgeir Grímsson, Privatdoz. MSc PhD

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

© Grimsson

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

Showing entries 61 - 80 out of 121

2018

Halbritter, H., Ulrich, S., Grímsson, F., Weber, M., Zetter, R., Hesse, M., Buchner, R., Svojtka, M., & Frosch-Radivo, A. (2018). Misinterpretations in Palynology. In Illustrated Pollen Terminology (2 ed.) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71365-6_4
Halbritter, H., Ulrich, S., Grímsson, F., Weber, M., Zetter, R., Hesse, M., Buchner, R., Svojtka, M., & Frosch-Radivo, A. (2018). Ornamentation. In Illustrated Pollen Terminology (2 ed.) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71365-6_10
Halbritter, H., Ulrich, S., Grímsson, F., Weber, M., Zetter, R., Hesse, M., Buchner, R., Svojtka, M., & Frosch-Radivo, A. (2018). Palynology: History and Systematic Aspects. In Illustrated Pollen Terminology (2 ed.) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71365-6_1
Halbritter, H., Ulrich, S., Grímsson, F., Weber, M., Zetter, R., Hesse, M., Buchner, R., Svojtka, M., & Frosch-Radivo, A. (2018). Pollen- and Dispersal Units. In Illustrated Pollen Terminology (2 ed.) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71365-6_7
Halbritter, H., Ulrich, S., Grímsson, F., Weber, M., Zetter, R., Hesse, M., Buchner, R., Svojtka, M., & Frosch-Radivo, A. (2018). Pollen Class. In Illustrated Pollen Terminology (2 ed.) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71365-6_12
Halbritter, H., Ulrich, S., Grímsson, F., Weber, M., Zetter, R., Hesse, M., Buchner, R., Svojtka, M., & Frosch-Radivo, A. (2018). Pollen Development. In Illustrated Pollen Terminology (2 ed.) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71365-6_2
Halbritter, H., Ulrich, S., Grímsson, F., Weber, M., Zetter, R., Hesse, M., Buchner, R., Svojtka, M., & Frosch-Radivo, A. (2018). Pollen Morphology and Ultrastructure. In Illustrated Pollen Terminology (2 ed.) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71365-6_3
Halbritter, H., Ulrich, S., Grímsson, F., Weber, M., Zetter, R., Hesse, M., Buchner, R., Svojtka, M., & Frosch-Radivo, A. (2018). Pollen Wall. In Illustrated Pollen Terminology (2 ed.) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71365-6_11
Halbritter, H., Ulrich, S., Grímsson, F., Weber, M., Zetter, R., Hesse, M., Buchner, R., Svojtka, M., & Frosch-Radivo, A. (2018). Shape and Polarity. In Illustrated Pollen Terminology (2 ed.) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71365-6_8
Manchester, S. R., Pigg, K., Dillhoff, R., Grimsson, F., & Kvacek, Z. (2018). Biogeographic patterns in the history of Trochodendraceae. 76-76. 10th European Palaeobotany and Palaynology Conference, Dublin, Ireland.
Grimsson, F., Zetter, R., Neumann, F. H., & Scott, L. (2018). LM vs. SEM based analyses of the Early Miocene Saldanha Bay Palynoflora, Western Cape South Africa. 181-181. 10th European Palaeobotany and Palynology Conference, Dublin, Ireland.
Zetter, R., Grimsson, F., & Jacobs, B. F. (2018). Sem investigation of the late oligocene Chilga Palynoflora, Ethiopia, East Africa. 190-190. 10th European Palaeobotany and Palaynology Conference, Dublin, Ireland.
Martinetto, E., Boonchai, N., Grimsson, F., Grote, P. J., Jordan, G., Kovacova, M., Kvacek, Z., Liu, Y-S. C., Momohara, A., Palazzesi, L., Pole, M., Popova-Tselenkova, S., & Saito, T. (2018). Worldwide temperate forests of the Neogene: Never more diverse? In Program & Abstracts: 10th European Palaeobotany & Palynology Conference : University College Dublin, Ireland, 12-17 August 2018 (pp. 149-149). Trinity College Dublin.
Grímsson, F., Grimm, G. W., Potts, A. J., Zetter, R., & Renner, S. S. (2018). A Winteraceae pollen tetrad from the early Paleocene of western Greenland, and the fossil record of Winteraceae in Laurasia and Gondwana. Journal of Biogeography, 45(3), 567-581. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13154
Grímsson, F., Xafis, A., Neumann, F. H., Scott, L., Bamford, M. K., & Zetter, R. (2018). The first Loranthaceae fossils from Africa. Grana, 57(4), 249-259. https://doi.org/10.1080/00173134.2018.1430167
Grímsson, F., Grimm, G. W., & Zetter, R. (2018). Evolution of pollen morphology in Loranthaceae. Grana, 57(1-2), 16-116. https://doi.org/10.1080/00173134.2016.1261939

2017

Grimsson, F., Xafis, A., Neumann, F. H., & Zetter, R. (2017). Pollen morphology of extant Winteraceae: a study allowing SEM-based affiliation of its fossil representatives. Acta Palaeobotanica, 57(2), 339-396. https://doi.org/10.1515/acpa-2017-0015
Bouchal, J. M., Mayda, S., Zetter, R., Grimsson, F., Akgun, F., & Denk, T. (2017). Miocene palynofloras of the Tınaz lignite mine, Muğla, southwest Anatolia: Taxonomy, palaeoecology and local vegetation change. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 243, 1-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2017.02.010
Grimsson, F., Grimm, G. W., & Zetter, R. (2017). Tiny pollen grains: first evidence of Saururaceae from the Late Cretaceous of western North America. PeerJ, 5, e3434. [e3434]. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3434
Grimsson, F., Kapli, P., Hofmann, C-C., Zetter, R., & Grimm, G. W. (2017). Eocene Loranthaceae pollen pushes back divergence ages for major splits in the family. PeerJ, 5, [e3373]. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3373
Showing entries 61 - 80 out of 121