Staff | Institute of Life and Environmental Sciences

Anna Dóra Sæþórsdóttir	Professor	5254287	annadora [at] hi.is	nature based tourism;;wilderness tourism;;tourism carrying capacity;;tourism and power production;;power plants;;land use planning;;tourism management and planning		https://iris.rais.is/en/persons/ba5290b1-1217-4001-9ceb-e30fc2f8138c	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Anna Karlsdóttir	Associate Professor		annakar [at] hi.is	coastal communities in the circumpolar arctic and the north atlantic;;rural regional development;;local economic development;;economic geography;;social cohesion;;green transition and rural regional development;;nordic regional studies;;european regional studies	Yes	https://iris.rais.is/en/persons/16845e1d-b42f-4509-b1f3-a9aed04a300d	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Arnar Pálsson	Professor	5254265	apalsson [at] hi.is	evolutionary genomics;;evolution of development;;variation in early development;;genetics of complex traits;;evolutionary biology;;population genetics;;evolution of morphotypes and species;;transcriptional cooption;;transcriptional decay;;genetic diversity in arctic charr;;ants;;culicoides;;genetics;;drosophila melanogaster;;experimental evolution	Yes	https://iris.rais.is/en/persons/ab60ac6e-8a6a-4580-b589-1cb294b42e16	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Ásbjörn Hall Sigurpálsson	Technical supervisor		asbhall [at] hi.is				Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Benjamin David Hennig	Professor	5254608	ben [at] hi.is	geography;;gis;;cartography;;geovisualisation;;inequality;;anthropocene;;sustainability;;maps;;mapping;;europe;;united kingdom;;remote sensing;;island studies;;visualisation;;data visualisation;;spatial analysis	Yes	https://iris.rais.is/en/persons/5df62929-d9ac-42e4-9f5d-d6cc8e65356a	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Björn Þór Aðalsteinsson	Adjunct Lecturer		bta [at] hi.is				Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Brendon Lee	Postdoc		brendon [at] hi.is	fisheries science;;marine ecology;;general fisheries biology			Institute of Life and Environmental Sciences
Edda Ruth Hlín Waage	Associate Professor	5254458	erw [at] hi.is	human geography;;landscape;;qualitative research methods;;nature perspectives;;environmental issues;;nature conservation;;geography	Yes	https://iris.rais.is/en/persons/98e9c501-e638-4ebb-b20e-88e97e37bfae	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Egill Erlendsson	Professor	5254474	egille [at] hi.is	geography;;palaeoecology;;palynology;;sedimentology;;soil science;;environmental geography	Yes	https://iris.rais.is/en/persons/e08f3594-a539-40b4-b88f-2963383142f2	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Guðmundur H Guðmundsson	Professor	5255276	ghrafn [at] hi.is	innate immunity;;antimicrobial peptides;;epithelial biology;;intracellular signal pathways	Yes	https://iris.rais.is/en/persons/78672d7f-6e65-4f4e-a781-a6b9d175c991	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Guðrún Marteinsdóttir	Professor		runam [at] hi.is	fisheries ecology;;bioactivity;;biotechnology;;innovation and entrepreneurship;;cosmetic formulation		https://iris.rais.is/en/persons/6ad2e9f4-8d3e-42eb-980c-2dcf20495c64	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Guðrún Rútsdóttir	Assistant Professor	5254611	gudrut [at] hi.is				Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Gunnar Þór Hallgrímsson	Professor	5254083	gunnih [at] hi.is	ornithology;;mammalogy;;ecology;;marine ecology		https://iris.rais.is/en/persons/d523dd02-70f0-431c-a0c6-753965426b41	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Gunnar Þór Jóhannesson	Professor	5254055	gtj [at] hi.is	tourism studies;;innovation and entrepreneurship;;actor-network theory;;arctic;;tourism labour market and employment;;destination development	Yes	https://iris.rais.is/en/persons/70bba069-84ba-48fd-9a9d-3b2b3c58a0d2	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Haseeb Randhawa	Professor	5254425	hrandhawa [at] hi.is	parasitology;;marine biology;;marine ecology;;fisheries ecology	Yes	https://iris.rais.is/en/persons/00ebfc1f-0e29-40d4-9349-1880dc626f01	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Ingi Agnarsson	Professor	5254612	iagnarsson [at] hi.is			https://iris.rais.is/en/persons/e34909ac-9cde-4bd2-a445-b696f77816b8	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Ingibjörg Svala Jónsdóttir	Professor	5254333	isj [at] hi.is	ecology;;biodiversity;;impact of climate change;;arctic;;plant-animal interaction;;byophyte-vascular plant interaction;;impact of land use		https://iris.rais.is/en/persons/e3115eb0-bf52-452b-a378-39580dacb541	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Magnfríður Birnu Júlíusdóttir	Assistant Professor	5254470	mj [at] hi.is	population geography;;human geography;;gender and land rights in africa;;migration;;regional development;;global north south relations;;power plants social impact		https://iris.rais.is/en/persons/1c094938-315a-4bb8-941e-d13dc169ba43	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Magnús Haukur Ásgeirsson	Adjunct Lecturer	5254379	mha [at] hi.is	service marketing;;service management;;tourism and hospitality		https://iris.rais.is/en/persons/6ffb6268-f59f-4b22-b6ff-920c3e04cd5f	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Mariana Lucia Tamayo	Associate Professor	5255226	mlt [at] hi.is	conservation biology;;invasive species ecology and management;;herbivory;;aquatic ecology;;plant and invertebrate ecology;;biodiversity;;urban biodiversity		https://iris.rais.is/en/persons/6411710d-4250-466c-b6a8-0e22446e00e5	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Ólafur Patrick Ólafsson	Technical supervisor	5254601	patrick [at] hi.is				Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Rannveig Ólafsdóttir	Professor	5255482	ranny [at] hi.is	physical geography;;sustainable tourism;;tourism and environment;;geographical information system;;environmental management and planning;;tourism and climate change;;geotourism		https://iris.rais.is/en/persons/4050fa6c-5770-4ad0-ad11-577b7bebaed5	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Sara Sigurbjörnsdóttir	Assistant Professor	5254627	sarasig [at] hi.is	osteoarthritis (oa;;hedgehog signaling;;primary cilium;;cell biology;;molecular biology		https://iris.rais.is/en/persons/1bdaea92-81ec-4413-bf1f-116dda03d8d8	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Sigrún Reynisdóttir	Technician	5255243	sigreyn [at] hi.is				Administration
Snæbjörn Pálsson	Professor	5254293	snaebj [at] hi.is	population and evolutionary biology;;biostatistics;;population genetics;;molecular ecology	Yes	https://iris.rais.is/en/persons/6fa786d6-f54a-4ae5-a928-b1d10232a9c8	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Snædís Huld Björnsdóttir	Professor	5254614	snaedis [at] hi.is	microbiology;;genetics;;biotechnology		https://iris.rais.is/en/persons/f5b6bf6e-45ad-4880-8853-7acecebffcbb	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Steven Campana	Professor		scampana [at] hi.is	fish fisheries otoliths sharks		https://iris.rais.is/en/persons/006bff5e-65d0-4254-b08a-92d53b7836bb	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Zophonías Oddur Jónsson	Professor	5254084	zjons [at] hi.is	gene regulation in yeast and arctic charr;;dna replication;;chromatin remodeling;;epigenetics		https://iris.rais.is/en/persons/1bf22981-0426-481a-8883-e943ae5565b5	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Þorsteinn Sæmundsson	Adjunct Lecturer	5255874	steinis [at] hi.is	debris flow;;natural hazard;;rock avalanche;;mass movements;;landslide;;mountain permafrost		https://iris.rais.is/en/persons/f09592b7-ae1c-48e1-b816-b8ead3e1c5ac	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Þóra Ellen Þórhallsdóttir	Professor Emerita	5254607	theth [at] hi.is	plant ecology;;primary succession;;proglacial environments;;lava flows;;reproductive biology;;flowering phenology;;global change;;valuing nature;;visual landscape assessment;;plant ecology primary succession proglacial environments lava flows reproductive biology flowering phenology global change valuing nature visual landscape assessmen;;plant ecology primary succession proglacial environments lava flows reproductive biology flowering phenology global change valuing nature visual landscape assessmen		https://iris.rais.is/en/persons/f95c1658-c879-44b1-84a5-8b0a1cc51441	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences

Retired staff

Einar Árnason	Professor Emeritus	5254613	einararn [at] hi.is	marine biology;;evolutionary biology: evolutionary genetics;;population genetics and genomics;;molecular genetics;;evolutionary ecology;;biometry	https://iris.rais.is/en/persons/45aaa1ca-a247-4a90-a2ed-4b7eca283dc9	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Eva Benediktsdóttir	Retired teacher	5254584	eben [at] hi.is	fish pathogens and marine bacteria;;microbiology	https://iris.rais.is/en/persons/bad59564-03aa-435e-a488-38be36494fbe	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Gísli Már Gíslason	Professor Emeritus	8615422	gmg [at] hi.is	stream ecosystem metabolism;;ecology of streams;;warm stream ecosystem metabolism;;wfd classification of water bodies and ecological status;;eurolimpacs ;;evaluating the impacts of global change on european freshwater ecosystems;;icelandic river ecosystems;;ecological classification of streams and rivers;;arctic and alpine stream ecosystem	https://iris.rais.is/en/persons/ca83b165-7492-4107-b0a6-56f65864c3c5	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Halldór Þormar	Professor Emeritus		halldort [at] hi.is		https://iris.rais.is/en/persons/9deb14e2-bc93-4387-adf7-f9ba98299d60	Biology - department
Jörundur Svavarsson	Professor Emeritus	5254610	jorundur [at] hi.is	marine biology;;ecotoxicology;;zoology	https://iris.rais.is/en/persons/048caa00-c117-4fc0-b904-68caa8fb7ea4	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Kesara Margrét Jónsson	Professor Emerita	5254284	kesara [at] hi.is	botany;;plant genetics;;plant physiology;;plant molecular biology;;cytogenetics;;plant phylogeography	https://iris.rais.is/en/persons/ae27f352-9fcd-4457-8ac3-db38167c4f75	Biology - department
Ólafur Sigmar Andrésson	Professor Emeritus		osa [at] hi.is	the lichen symbiome. bioactive compounds in lichens and their genes;;lichen genomics;;surrogate expression in bacteria and fungi;; molecular genetics;; genomics;; genetic engineering;; biotechnology;; bioinformatics;;cyanobacterial nitrogen fixation in association with lichens and mosses. alternative nitrogenases in cyanobacteria	https://iris.rais.is/en/persons/760d38d3-4011-4951-a998-78df1e60360d	Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences
Sigurður Sveinn Snorrason	Professor Emeritus	5254612	sigsnor [at] hi.is	ecology;;behaviour ecology;;evolutionary biology;;developmental biology	https://iris.rais.is/en/persons/65d4c989-d008-4cf8-a2db-c2ac124cad73	Institute of Life and Environmental Sciences