Elisabeth Isaksson is a Swedish glaciologist and geologist who has researched polar climate history on the basis of ice cores.

She has also studied snow and ice pollution on the Norwegian island of Svalbard and has participated in award-winning European projects on Antarctic climate change.

With a thesis on Climate records from shallow firn cores, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica,[3] she was awarded a Ph.D. from Stockholm University in 1994.

[1] Dr. Isaksson served as a research assistant on Antarctic projects at Stockholm University from 1988 to 1995 before assuming the role of glaciologist at the Norwegian Polar Institute in February 1995, a position she still holds today as the head of the Geology and Geophysics department.

[1][4] Since 2001, she has been involved in studying ice-core records from Lomonsovfonna on Svalbard, contributing to numerous papers on climate change spanning the past 800 years.