Hilmar Gudmundsson

Hilmar Gudmundsson conducts research in glaciology with a specific focus on the future evolution of glaciers and ice-sheets in a warming world.

His research concerns the processes controlling the flow of glaciers and ice sheets. Gudmundsson is fascinated by how complex the behaviour of large ice masses can be, how glaciers respond to external changes in the environment, and how they in turn affect the environment around them.

Gudmundsson is a physicist by background and his research takes a combined observational, numerical and theoretical approach to understand the processes governing the behaviour of glaciers.