Education:

2010-2015 Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Iceland. Thesis: Óskarsson, B.V., 2015, Volcanological studies of Neogene flood basalt groups in eastern Iceland, PhD-thesis, University of Iceland, pp 220. 2007-2009 M.Sc. in Geology from the University of Iceland. Thesis: Óskarsson, B.V., 2009, The Skerin ridge on Eyjafjallajökull, south Iceland: morphology and magma-ice interaction in an ice-confined silicic fissure eruption, MS-thesis, University of Iceland, pp 111. 2002-2005 B.Sc. in Geology from the University of Iceland. Thesis: Óskarsson, B.V., 2005, Lava-rise structures in pahoehoe and a’a: examples from the Hrútagjá lava shield and Kapelluhraun a’a flow field on the Reykjanes peninsula, BS-thesis, University of Iceland, pp 115.

Employment:

2017-present Researcher at the Natural Science Institute of Iceland (previously the Icelandic Institute of Natural History) / Director of the Digital Photogrammetry lab at NSII 2015-2017 Researcher at the Icelandic Institute of Natural History / Director of the Drill Core Library of the Icelandic Institute of Natural History in Breiðdalsvík 2010-2015 Ph.D. candidate and research fellow at the University of Iceland Ph.D. candidate and research fellow at the Nordic Volcanological Center, Faculty of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland, Three-month parental leave in 2011 and 2013. 2009-2010 Research fellow at the Nordic Volcanological Center, Faculty of Earth Sciences, University of Iceland – research on climate-dependent weathering of volcanic soils

Awards:

2022: Awarded for best talk at the Stikningskonferansen, Oslo, 30. August 2022. “Monitoring dynamic environments in Iceland with 3D photogrammetry – Examples from the Fagradalsfjall volcano and Surtsey island.” 2012: American Geophysical Union fall meeting (AGU), VGP Outstanding student paper award, The architecture of tholeiitic lava flows in the Neogene flood basalt piles of eastern Iceland: constraints on the mode of emplacement. 2010: American Geophysical Union fall meeting (AGU), VGP Outstanding student paper award, The 10th century Skerin Ridge on northwest Eyjafjallajökull, south Iceland – Volcanic Architecture and bimodal magma composition.

Professional societies:

Iceland Glaciological Society

American Geophysical Union (AGU)

European Geosciences Union (EGU)

Geoscience Society of Iceland

The Surtsey Research Society (vice-chairman