Guðfinna Aðalgeirsdóttir is professor of Glaciology at the Institute of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland. Her work focuses on the interaction of climate and glaciers/ice sheets by monitoring and modelling the response of glaciers and ice caps to climate change in the past, present and future.
She previously worked on coupling ice sheet and climate models for the Greenland Ice Sheet at the Danish Meteorological Institute in Copenhagen, in order to improve sea level rise projections.
She studied geophysics and glaciology at University of Iceland, University of Alaska in Fairbanks and ETH in Zürich, Switzerland and has done field work in Iceland, Alaska, Switzerland, Greenland and two field seasons in Antarctica.
Guðfinna is one of the lead authors of Chapter 9 in the 6th assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC AR6).