Bristol Who’s Who Recognizes Per Möller
Explorer, Researcher and Teacher, Per Möller isn’t an ordinary academic. The Department of Geology at Lund University, Sweden has been “home” to Per Möller since 1977 when he began his doctoral studies there. He is now a professor in Quaternary geology at the same department. For close to 20 years he was the Director of Studies, followed by an appointment as the Head of the Geology Department (prefekt) for seven years. After that he acted as Deputy Head up to 2011. During his tenure his responsibilities have included course planning, personnel and economy issues, and strategic planning. Regarding his work as fun and rewarding, Professor Möller’s most exciting project, the “Geocentre project”, involved planning and final completion (in 2003) and relocation to the new buildings for all Geosciences.
The basis of all of Professor Möller’s lifelong work is his research and teaching. After finishing his PhD and thesis on Moraine morphology, till genesis and deglaciation pattern in the Asnen area, south-central Sweden, Per Möller’s research has a focus on reconstructions of Quaternary environments in polar regions, with close to 20 field expeditions to, e.g., Antarctica, Tierra del Fuego, Greenland, Svalbard and Arctic Russia (Siberia). His research is also conducted on glacial processes, sediments and landforms all over Sweden. His work has published and featured in over fifty articles and books including Nature, Science, PLOS, Quaternary Science Reviews, Boreas, The Holocene, Journal of Quaternary Science, and others. Recent titles include: The Taimyr Peninsula and the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago, Arctic Russia: a synthesis of glacial history and palaeo-environment change during the last glacial cycle, (2015); Fifty thousand years of arctic vegetation change and megafauna diet, (2014) and Weichselian glaciation history of the Fennoscandian ice sheet in southern Sweden and the southwestern Baltic Basin, (2014). Besides the publication in scientific journal, the research results have been exposed with talks and posters at numerous international scientific meetings. His latest expedition in 2014 was to Tierra del Fuego, Chile where he conducted two weeks’ field work, coring lake basins and lagoons for sea-level history reconstruction since the last glacial maxima.
In five years Professor Möller is looking forward to his retirement but also still being active in research and publication, continuing to improve our understanding of the past through geology. Still residing in Lund, Sweden, Per enjoys wine tasting, cooking and gardening when he is home.
Bristol Who’s Who Member Per Möller, PhD can be found on the Who’s Who Directory where he is looking forward to networking with you.
