{"id":13,"date":"2014-06-12T15:40:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T15:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uni.hi.is\/rjs\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2014-06-12T16:21:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T16:21:50","slug":"background","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/rjs\/background\/","title":{"rendered":"Background"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Date of birth:<\/b> March 3rd, 1968<\/p>\n<h2>Degrees<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Management of Technology (Ph.D.), Chalmers University of Technology, 2003<\/li>\n<li>Management of Technology (Lic.Eng), Chalmers University of Technology, 2000<\/li>\n<li>Engineering (M.Sc.), University of Iceland, 1994.<\/li>\n<li>Electrical Engineering (B.Sc.), University of Iceland, 1991<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Positions<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Iceland, 2014-<\/li>\n<li>VP of R&amp;D Reykjavik, \u00d6ssur hf., 2012-2013<\/li>\n<li>Director of R&amp;D Engineering \u2013 Bionic Products, \u00d6ssur hf., 2011-2012<\/li>\n<li>Visiting Professor, Engineering Systems Division, MIT, 2008-2009<\/li>\n<li>Director of Research, School of Business, Reykjavik University, 2005-2006<\/li>\n<li>Associate Professor, School of Business, Reykjavik University, 2005-2013<\/li>\n<li>Director of the Centre for Research on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 2003-2010.<\/li>\n<li>Assistant Professor, School of Business, Reykjavik University, 2003-2005<\/li>\n<li>PhD student, Dept of Industrial Dynamics, Chalmers Univ. of Technology, 1997\u20132002<\/li>\n<li>Technical Director, Flaga hf., 1994-1997<\/li>\n<li>Engineer, Sleep Research Lab, The University Hospital of Iceland, 1991-1993<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Other<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Proposal evaluation committee for Innvi\u00f0asj\u00f3\u00f0ur (The Icelandic Science Infrastructure Fund) , since 2013.<\/li>\n<li>Advisory board of N\u00fdsk\u00f6punarmi\u00f0st\u00f6\u00f0 \u00cdslands (Innovation Center Iceland), since 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Proposal evaluation committee for N\u00fdsk\u00f6punarsj\u00f3\u00f0ur n\u00e1msmanna (The Icelandic Student Innovation Fund), since 2011.<\/li>\n<li>Chairman of the board of the Icelandic Competition Authority, 2009-2013.<\/li>\n<li>Board member of the Global Entrepreneurship Research Association (GERA), 2009.<\/li>\n<li>Chairman of the board of Arc holding ehf., since 2005.<\/li>\n<li>On the proposal evaluation committee for T\u00e6kni\u00fer\u00f3unarsj\u00f3\u00f0ur (The Icelandic Technology Development Fund), 2004-2007.<\/li>\n<li>Board member of Flaga hf . 1994-1997 and 2002-2005.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date of birth: March 3rd, 1968 Degrees Management of Technology (Ph.D.), Chalmers University of Technology, 2003 Management of Technology (Lic.Eng), Chalmers University of Technology, 2000 Engineering (M.Sc.), University of Iceland, 1994. Electrical Engineering (B.Sc.), University of Iceland, 1991 Positions Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Iceland, 2014- VP of R&amp;D Reykjavik, \u00d6ssur hf., [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1304,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/rjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/rjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/rjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/rjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1304"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/rjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/rjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/rjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/rjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}