EDUCATION

1980 Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.). University of California, Santa Barbara, California, USA.
1974 Master of Science (M.S.). McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
1972 B.S. degree. University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

1991—Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Biology, University of Iceland.

2017 — Associate, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

1981–1991 Associate professor, Department of Biology, University of Iceland.
2015–2016 Visiting Scholar Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
2011—Visiting Scholar, Center for Theoretical Evolutionary Genomics and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology,University  of California at Berkely, Berkeley, California, USA
2001–2002 Visiting Associate, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA.
1997 Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
1993 Visiting Scholar, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.
1993 Visiting Scholar, Lunds Universitet, Lund, Sweden.
1988–1989 Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, Cambridge, e Massachusetts, USA.
Organizer and host. XIV Congress of the Scandinavian Association of Geneticists, ODDI, University of Iceland,
18.–21. June 1991.
1980–1982 Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
1975–1980 Associate, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA.
1977–1978 Research Associate, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA.
1974–1975 Teaching Assistant, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, USA.
1972–1973 Demonstrator, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
1971–1972 Teaching Assistant, Department of Biology, University of Iceland.
1971 Research assistant, Department of Biology, University of Iceland..