Friðgeir Grímsson, Privatdoz. MSc PhD

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

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Medienbeiträge

Forschungsinteressen

  • 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.

Projekte

 Kooperationen

  • 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

Derzeitige Anstellung

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

Ausbildung

  • 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.

Wissenschaftliche Laufbahn

  • 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

Publikationen

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2016

Grímsson, F., Grimm, G. W., Zetter, R., & Denk, T. (2016). Cretaceous and paleogene fagaceae from North America and Greenland: Evidence for a late cretaceous split between fagus and the remaining fagaceae. Acta Palaeobotanica, 56(2), 247-305. https://doi.org/10.1515/acpa-2016-0016
Bouchal, J. M., Zetter, R., Grimsson, F., & Denk, T. (2016). The middle Miocene palynoflora and palaeoenvironments of Eskihisar (Yatağan basin, south-western Anatolia): a combined LM and SEM investigation. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 182(1), 14-79. https://doi.org/10.1111/boj.12446
Wappler, T., & Grimsson, F. (2016). Before the 'Big Chill': Patterns of plant-insect associations from the Neogene of Iceland. Global and Planetary Change, 142, 73-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2016.05.003
Grimsson, F., Pedersen, G. K., Grimm, G., & Zetter, R. (2016). A revised stratigraphy for the Palaeocene Agatdalen flora (Nuussuaq Peninsula, western Greenland): correlating fossiliferous outcrops, macrofossils, and palynological samples from phosphoritic nodules. Acta Palaeobotanica, 56(2), 307-327. https://doi.org/10.1515/acpa-2016-0009
Grimsson, F., Grimm, G. W., Meller, B., Bouchal, J., & Zetter, R. (2016). Combined LM and SEM study of the middle Miocene (Sarmatian) palynoflora from the Lavanttal Basin, Austria: part IV. Magnoliophyta 2 - Fagales to Rosales. Grana: an international journal of palynology and aerobiology with world pollen and spore flora, 55(2), 101-163. https://doi.org/10.1080/00173134.2015.1096566

2015

Meller, B., Zetter, R., Hassler, A., Bouchal, J., Hofmann, C., & Grimsson, F. (2015). Middle Miocene macrofloral elements from the Lavanttal Basin, Austria, Part I. Ginkgo adiantoides (Unger) Heer. Austrian Journal of Earth Sciences, 108(2), 185-198.
Grimsson, F., Hofmann, C., & Zetter, R. (2015). Paläobotanische Untersuchungen auf der Insel Mykines (Färöer Inseln): Spät-Paläozäne Blattfunde und Pollen. in H. Gebhardt (Hrsg.), Österreichische Paläontologische Gesellschaft: 21. Jahrestagung in Bad Ischl, 25.-27. September 2015: Programm, Kurzfassungen und Exkursionsführer (S. 9). Österreichische Paläontologische Gesellschaft.
Béthoux, O., Kondratieff, B., Grimsson, F., Ólafsson, E., & Wappler, T. (2015). Character state-based taxa erected to accommodate fossil and extant needle stoneflies (Leuctridae - Leuctrida tax.n.) and close relatives. Systematic Entomology, 40(2), 322-341. https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12102
Manchester, S. R., Grimsson, F., & Zetter, R. (2015). Assessing the fossil record of asterids in the context of our current phylogenetic framework. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 100(4), 329-363. https://doi.org/10.3417/2014033
Grimsson, F., Meller, B., Bouchal, J. M., & Zetter, R. (2015). Combined LM and SEM study of the middle Miocene (Sarmatian) palynoflora from the Lavanttal Basin, Austria: part III. Magnoliophyta 1 - Magnoliales to Fabales. Grana: an international journal of palynology and aerobiology with world pollen and spore flora, 54(2), 85-128. https://doi.org/10.1080/00173134.2015.1007081
Grimsson, F., Zetter, R., Grimm, G. W., Pedersen, G. K., Pedersen, A. K., & Denk, T. (2015). Fagaceae pollen from the early Cenozoic of West Greenland: revisiting Engler's and Chaney's Arcto-Tertiary hypotheses. Plant Systematics and Evolution, 301, 809-832. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00606-014-1118-5
Wappler, T., Labandeira, C. C., Engel, M. S., Zetter, R., & Grimsson, F. (2015). Specialized and generalized pollen-collection strategies in an ancient bee lineage. Current Biology, 25(23), 3092-3098. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2015.09.021

2014

Grimsson, F., Zetter, R., Pedersen, G. K., Pedersen, A. K., & Denk, T. (2014). Middle Eocene palynoflora from a resiniterich coal bed on Hareoen (Qeqertarsuatsiaq), West Greenland. in 9th European Palaeobotany-Palynology Conference
Bouchal, J., Zetter, R., Grimsson, F., & Denk, T. (2014). Evolutionary trends and ecological differentiation in early Cenozoic Fagaceae of western North America. American Journal of Botany: the journal for all plant biologists, 101(8), 1332-1349. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1400118
Grimsson, F., Zetter, R., Halbritter, H., & Grimm, G. (2014). Aponogeton pollen from the Cretaceous and Paleogene of North America and West Greenland: Implications for the origin and palaeobiogeography of the genus. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 200, 161-187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2013.09.005
Wappler, T., Grimsson, F., Wang, B., Nel, A., Olafsson, E., Kotov, A. A., Davis, S. R., & Engel, M. S. (2014). Before the "Big Chill": A preliminary overview of arthropods from the middle Miocene of Iceland (Insecta, Crustacea). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 401, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.03.006
Zetter, R., & Grimsson, F. (2014). Early Paleocene palynoflora from nodular phosphorites of the Nuussuaq Peninsula, West Greenland. 9th European Palaeobotany Palynology Conference (EPPC), Padova, Italien.
Denk, T., Grimsson, F., & Zetter, R. (2014). Origins of the north-temperate tree flora: revisiting Engler's concept of the Arcto-Tertiary element. 9th European Palaeobotany Palynology Conference (EPPC), Padova, Italien.
Zetter, R., Grimsson, F., Hofmann, C., & Grimm, G. (2014). Paleogene Loranthaceae pollen from West Greenland and Eurasia. in 9th European Palaeobotany-Palynoloy Conference
Wappler, T., Grimsson, F., & Denk, T. (2014). Patterns of plant-insect associations from the Miocene of Iceland. in 9th European Palaeobotany-Palynology Conference
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