Icelandic System Dynamics Center (IceSDC)
The Icelandic Systems Dynamics Center was established at the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Iceland, Reykjavik in 2014. The Icelandic Systems Dynamics Center was founded by and is headed by the Professor of Industrial Engineering, Dr. Harald U. Sverdrup. Sverdrup comes from 6 years as a corporate President, CEO and innovator in Norwegian industry, and 25 years as a Professor in Chemical Engineering at Lund University, Sweden and 5 years as an innovator and consultant in North America. Assistant professor of Industrial Engineering, Dr. Anna Hulda Olofsdottir is a key researcher at the Icelandic Systems Dynamics Center (ISDC) with special competence in supply chains, quality management systems and natural resource supply. Dr. Anna Olofsdottir competes at European- and World- level in weightlifting and Crossfit and is a positive role model for Icelandic youth. The Icelandic Systems Dynamics Center has at present one PhD student in food supply system dynamics (Ingunn Ýr Guðbrandsdóttir). The staff teaches about 20 master students every year from the different faculties at the University of Iceland. The Icelandic Systems Dynamics Center practices the Nordic variant of Systems Analysis and System Dynamics.
The Icelandic Systems Dynamics Center is the main systems thinking supplier for the University and serve trans-disciplinary systems thinking for all faculties of the University. The Icelandic Systems Dynamics Center has the responsibility for systems thinking, systems analysis and systems dynamics teaching at University of Iceland. The system dynamics teaching provided by the Icelandic Systems Dynamics Center is a cornerstone course in the degrees of Industrial, Mechanical and Computer Engineering. The Icelandic Systems Dynamics Center is already active in modelling industrial ecology, ecology and environment, sustainability issues, and develop complex models for society, complex systemic illnesses, national economies and industrial systems. The Icelandic System Dynamics Center is involved in several EU projects; VALUMICS in the H2020 programme and the Marie Curie Programme project AdaptEconII, as well as projects with the German Government; SIMRESS.