Ian Snowball

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Professor of Quaternary Geology

Member of BOREAS editorial board.

Research interests: Geo/paleomagnetism, contaminated sediments.

Teaching foci: Geomorphology, Quaternary geology, palaeomagnetism

Biography

Ian graduated from Loughborough University of Technology (England) in 1984 with a BSc in Geography and Ecology. Between 1985 and 1989 he worked as a Research Associate in the Department of Geophysics at Edinburgh University (Scotland). He completed his PhD in Quaternary Geology at Lund University, Sweden in 1995 and spent a postdoctoral year at the Geological Survey of Finland (Espoo), returning to Lund in 1997. He became professor in Quaternary geology in 2008. He moved to Uppsala University in 2012. He served as director of the research program 'Natural Resources and Sustainable Development' between 2014 and 2019, and was Head of the Department of Earth Sciences between July 2019 and June 2025.

Ian maintains a multidisciplinary interest in global change, palaeomagnetism and human impact on the environment.

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