Background
Mangerud, Jan was born on November 29, 1937 in Oslo, Norway. Son of Kaare and Ruth (Hansen) Mangerud.
Mangerud, Jan was born on November 29, 1937 in Oslo, Norway. Son of Kaare and Ruth (Hansen) Mangerud.
Mangerud graduated from the University of Oslo with a Bachelor"s degree (candmag) in 1961 and a Master"s degree (candreal) in 1962, and in 1973 he obtained a Doctorate (dr philos) from the University of Bergen, where he started a long lasting cooperation with Professor Bjørn G. Andersen, becoming a professor at the same university in 1977.
He is also connected to the University of Bergen"s Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, now as Professor emeritus (2013). Mangerud was a visiting scholar at Stockholm University in 1965 and the University of Minnesota in 1972, and a visiting professor at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado on several occasions. He has been involved in supervising research activities at the Norwegian Research Council for Science and the Humanities and the Research Council of Norway, and his own publications in academic journals number about 160.
Childlike curiosity and enthusiasm characterize Mangerud, and when he resigned as professor at the University of Bergen in 2005, he knew that it was precisely these qualities that were the key to his success as a researcher
1962 – Hans and Helga Reuschs Legacy.
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters]
Mangerud became a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters in 1987, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 1992, the Royal Swedish Physiographic Society in 1996, and the Academia Europaea in 1991. He was the first Norwegian to become an honorary member of the Quaternary Research Association, in 2006, and the International Union for Quaternary Research, in 2007. 1987 – Member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters
1991 – Member of Academia Europaea
1992 – Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
1996 – Member of Royal Physiographic Society in Lund, Sweden
2006 – Honorary member of the Quaternary Research Association (QRA)
2007 – Honorary member of International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA).
Married Bjørg Myhr, July 2, 1960. Children: Gunn, Asbjørn, Vemund.