Margit Simon
Margit H. Simon is a senior researcher in the ocean observation group at the Norwegian Research Centre in Bergen, Norway affiliated with the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research and Center for Early Sapiens Behaviour. A paleoceanographer and paleoclimatologist by training, a central focus of her research has been investigating ocean-cryosphere-atmosphere interactions in the northern North Atlantic and Nordic Seas during past abrupt climate changes, the Last Glacial Maximum and Holocene.
She explores these themes by using a range of sedimentary, paleoecological and geochemical proxies in marine sediment cores.
Since her PhD, she has intensively studied past climate variability in South Africa and its surrounding oceans. By bridging the gap between climate reconstructions and archaeological data, she has recently been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant to investigate how environmental factors shaped the cultural evolution of early Homo sapiens in Africa, using cutting-edge analytical and computational approaches.
