Majken Caroline Looms Zibar
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20042024

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Research areas:

Combined use of cross-borehole electrical resistance tomography and ground penetrating radar

  • Visualize water infiltration in the unsaturated zone (Looms et al., 2008b; Haarder et al., 2012)
  • Estimate unsaturated hydraulic parameters at meter-scale (Looms et al., 2008a; Scholer et al., 2012; 2013)
  • Recharge estimation (Haarder et al., 2015)
  • Monitor gas migration in saturated zone (Lassen et al., 2015; Yang et al., 2015)

 Cross-borehole ground penetrating radar

  • Characterize porosity variations in chalk (Nielsen, et al., 2010; Keskinen et al., 2017; 2021)
  • Delineate sand occurrences in clayey till (Looms et al., 2018)
  • Improving inversion strategies (Hansen et al., 2008; 2013a; 2013b; Cordua et al., 2008; 2009; Looms et al., 2010)

 Reflection ground penetrating radar

  • Monitor forced infiltration into unsaturated sand (Haarder et a., 2011)
  • Delineate organic matter at lake-bottoms (Nilsson et al., 2009; Kidmose et al., 2011)
  • Estimating EM velocity using diffraction images (Yuan et al., 2019; 2020) 

 Cosmic-ray neutron detection

  • Compare model results to field data (Andreasen et al., 2016; 2017b)
  • Estimate biomass and interception using thermal and epithermal measurements (Andreasen et al., 2017a)
  • Analyze soil moisture at various land cover types (Andreasen et al., 2020)

CV

CV – Associate Professor Majken C. Looms Zibar

Date of Birth: July 4th, 1975

Nationality: British (Born and raised in Denmark)

Telephone number: (+45) 61465488

E-mail: [email protected]

Researcher ID: N-7471-2014

Orcid ID: 0000-0002-3831-6305                                                                                                 

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.dk/citations?user=zgPrcYEAAAAJ&hl=en

Education 

Feb. 21st, 2003  Technical University of Denmark, M.Sc., Environmental Engineering

May 15th, 2007  University of Copenhagen, PhD, Hydrogeophysics

Employments

2007 - 2009   University of Copenhagen (Post Doc)

2009 - 2015   University of Copenhagen (Assistant Professor)

2015 - date    University of Copenhagen (Associate Professor)

2010              Maternity leave (Feb. 1st – Nov. 21st, 2010)

2012/2013     Maternity leave (Feb. 3rd, 2012 – Feb. 12th, 2013)

Key Scientific Qualifications

Appointed member of Hydrology Section’s Hydrogeophysics Technical Committee under the American Geophysical Union from 2011-.

Associate Editor of Vadose Zone Journal from 2014-2019.

Member of 8 external PhD assessment committees; 1) Juan Pedro Sanchez-Ubeda, University of Granada, Spain, 2017; 2) Joost Iwema, University of Bristol, UK 2017; 3) Per-Ivar Olsson, Lund University, Sweden 2018; 4) Anne-Karin Cooke, University of Montpellier, France, 2020; 5) Jorge Lopez-Alvis, University of Liege, Ghent University, 2021; 6) Triven Koganti, Aarhus University, Denmark, 2021; 7) Andrea Palacios Pierlussi, CSIC Barcelona, 2021; 8) Moua Rohianuu, Université de Strasbourg, France, 2021.

Principal organizer of the 5th International COSMOS workshop in Copenhagen in 2016.

Publications (ISI H-index 18, ISI citations 536)

35 peer-reviewed international journal papers, 5 invited scientific talks (4 first author or presenter), 5 outstanding student paper award (2 first author).

Selected Funding Applications

2015: “Kortlægning af sandlinser i moræneler i den umættede zone ved brug af cross-borehole ground penetrating radar”, 90.040 DKK funded by Region Hovedstaden for proof-of-concept test af Kallerup Grusgrav (PI).

2016: “European training network on innovative imaging methods for heterogeneous aquifers - ENIGMA” funded by Marie Curie Innovative Training Networks 3,865,770 EURO, 2016 (Project member).

2017: “ Kortlægning af sand- og leraflejringer ved brug af cross-borehole ground penetrating radar på Gefionsvej 45”, 121.100 DKK funded by Region Hovedstaden for proof-of-concept test (PI).

2017: ”Geological characterization of clayey till using cross-borehole ground penetrating radar” funded by Geocenter Denmark, 2017, 2.3 mio DKK (PI)

2017: “Parametrisering og kvantificering af interceptionstab fra lokal til national skala” funded by Geocenter Denmark, 2017, 2.5 mio DKK (co-PI).

2018: ”Borehulsgeoradar: Udvikling af en ny geofysisk metode til effektive miljøundersøgelser for at beskytte drikkevandet” Industrial PhD funded by Innovationsfonden (PI).

2019: Research member of the 5-year United Nation IAEA Coordinated Research Project (CRP): “Enhancing Agricultural Resilience and Water Security Using Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensor”.

2019: Grant for novel crosshole GPR equipment from Capital Region of Denmark 10.000 Euro (PI).

2020: Carlsberg Foundation research infrastructure grant for gamma-ray spectrometer, 235.000 DKK (PI).

Supervision

Since 2005, supervised or co-supervised 21 Bachelor’s projects, 15 Master’s thesis projects and the following 8 PhD thesis projects:

Eline B. Haarder: “Hydrogeophysical investigations of unsaturated flow and transport”, 2009-2014.

Rune N. Lassen: “Experimental and numerical investigations of subsurface transport of gaseous CO2”, 2010-2014.                     

Mie Andreasen: “Hydrology and Cosmic radiation: Neutron intensity measurements and modeling at specific field locations”, 2012-2016.      

Johanna Keskinen: “Time-lapse cross-hole ground penetrating radar imaging”, 2012 -

Tanja Denager: “Water balance assessment for the HOBE hydrological observatory”, 2017 -

Joel T. Conde: “Multi-scale thermal imaging of groundwater upwelling in stream valleys”, 2017 - 2020

Espen Bing Svendsen: “Geological characterization of clayey till using cross-borehole ground penetrating radar” (2017 - )                 

Bolette Badsberg Jensen: “Borehulsgeoradar: Udvikling af en ny geofysisk metode til effektive miljøundersøgelser for at beskytte drikkevandet”

Involved in 5 additional PhD projects resulting in 6 peer-reviewed publications: Jacob Kidmose (University of Copenhagen), Sachin Karan (University of Copenhagen), Lars Christiansen (Technical University of Denmark), Marie Scholer (University of Lausanne, Switzerland), Arthur Klebson Belarmino Dos Santos (University of São Paolo, Brazil).

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