Elected honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Sigurður Reynir Gíslason, a geochemist and research professor at the University of Iceland’s Institute of Earth Sciences, has been elected honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for his work in the field of Earth Sciences.

The University of Iceland announces that the academy is a community that honors outstanding scientists, artists, and leaders and brings together scientists and experts from different disciplines of science, art, and professional life to face challenges that affect societies around the world.

In the group of 25 international honorees

Gíslason is one of 25 international honorary members accepted this year and is in a group of scients of the highest rank, like Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Wislawa Szym-Borska, Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Nelson Mandela, and Jean-Claude Allegre.

Gíslason, who received his BS in geology from the University of Iceland in 1980 and his PhD in mineralogy from Johns Hopkins University in the United States in 1985, is one of the best academics in the fields of astronomy, astrophysics, and geo­sciences accepted to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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Mostly known for the CarbFix project

He is mostly known for his leadership role within the CarbFix project, which he chaired from the beginning of the project in 2006 to 2020. The project is about the binding of carbon dioxide in basalt strata and his success in injecting and binding carbon dioxide at the Hellisheiðar power plant and elsewhere has caused global attention and has received various accolades.

Gíslason will be officially accepted to the American Academy of Sciences at a ceremony in the academy’s home city, Cambridge, Massachusetts, next September.