Minik Thorleif Rosing (born 1957 in Nuuk) is a Greenlandic-Danish geologist and professor at the Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, affiliated with the Natural History Museum of Denmark. He gained international recognition in 1999 after identifying traces of photosynthesis in the 3.7-3.8 billion-year-old Isua rock formations in Greenland, pushing back the known origin of life by hundreds of millions of years. More recently he has turned to climate science, founding Rock Flour Company to explore glacial rock flour from Greenland as a natural CO₂ sink and soil improver for tropical agriculture.
Minik Rosing received the Folkemødet Dialogue Prize 2025 for his role in the debate about Greenland's relationship with Denmark and the future of the Realm.
Rosing is nominated for the Nordic Council Environmental Prize 2025 for his research-based work with glacial flour as climate technology.
Rosing gave a lecture at Rundetårn in connection with the exhibition TID*MULD*STJERNE about the relationship between art, science and Earth's history.
Rosing spoke to CBS News' 60 Minutes about Greenland's mineral resources and rejected the notion of rapid mineral wealth as an illusion.
The documentary film 'Magic Mud' about Rosing's glacial flour project had its world premiere at the CPH:DOX festival in March 2024.
Philosopher Morten Grønborg discusses the origin of everything, the emergence of life, and the mystery of consciousness with three science communicators in separate conversations at Østerbro Library.
Philosopher Morten Grønborg discusses the cosmos, life, and consciousness with leading science communicators in a three-part series at Østerbro Library.