Staff

Dr. Tom Barry
Acting Director
4608028
Dr. Níels Einarsson
Former Director (on leave during 2025)
460 8981 and 861 1325
Professor Joan Nymand Larsen
Senior Scientist and Research Director
460 8980 and 893 0488
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Jón Haukur Ingimundarson
Anthropologist and Senior Scientist
460 8980 and 862 0477
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Catherine Chambers
Senior Scientist and Research Manager
450 3048
Curriculum Vitae
Sveinbjörg Smáradóttir
Researcher (on leave)
460 8980 and 866 2923
Helga Guðrún Númadóttir
Researcher
Þórný Barðadóttir
Researcher
4608932
Curriculum Vitae
Andrea Marta Knudsen
Researcher
Curriculum Vitae

Senior Associate Scientists

Staff

Dr. Astrid E. J. Ogilvie
Senior Associate Scientist
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Melody Brown Burkins
Director, Institute of Arctic Studies
Dr. Tom Barry
Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Akureyri
Dr. Margaret Willson
Affiliate Associate Professor at the Departments of Anthropology, University of Washington
Hjörleifur Guttormsson
Biologist, former member of Parliament of Iceland and honorary member of Landvernd, Icelandic Environment Association
Dr. Ramona Harrison
Associate Professor, Department of Archaeology, History, Cultural Studies and Religion: University of Bergen
Dr. Natalia Loukacheva
Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Governance and Law
Professor Hugh Beach
Professor, Dept. Cultural Anthropology & Ethnology, Uppsala University
Dr. Þorsteinn Gunnarsson
Former rector of the University of Akureyri
Professor Guðmundur Alfreðsson
Senior Associate Scientist
Professor Lassi Heininen
Professor Emeritus of Arctic Politics at University of Lapland
Dr. Annika Nilsson
Senior Researcher, Nordland Research Institute: Bodo, Norway
+46 8 674 73 31
Dr. Kristján Kristjánsson
Director of University of Reykjavík Research Service
Dr. Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox
Principal investigator and Project Director of the Modern Treaty Implementation Research Project
Dr. Þór Jakobsson
Senior Researcher, Icelandic Meteorological Office
Professor Oran R. Young
Professor Emeritus at Bren School of Environmental Science and Management
Dr. Gísli Pálsson
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at University of Iceland
Professor Mark Nuttall
Professor Thomas H. McGovern
Director of the Hunter Zooarchaeology Laboratory
+1 212 772 5656 and +1 212 772 5423
Dr. Ross A. Virginia
Environmental Studies Program and Institute of Arctic Studies: Dartmouth College
Dr. Richard S. Williams, Jr.
+1 508 344 6840
Dr. Rósa Rut Þórisdóttir
+32 470 552074 and +32 2325 7858
Dr. Elena Conde
Profesora Titular de Derecho Internacional Público
Professor Andrey N. Petrov
Professor and ARCTICenter Director at the University of Northern Iowa
Dr. Françoise Breton
+34 93 581 35 49 and +34 606 347 204
Dr. Steven Hartman
Guest Professor in English
+46 21 101448 and +46 73 662 1574
Dr. Leslie A. King
Professor and Director
+250 391 2511
Dr. Alison Laurie Neilson
Investigatora
Dr. Anna Kerttula de Echave
+1 202 363 1596
Curriculum Vitae
Professor Michael Bravo
Professor of the History and Geography of Science, University of Cambridge.
+44 1223 336561
Professor Lenore A. Grenoble
John Matthews Manly Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Linguistics
Curriculum Vitae
Professor Jules Pretty OBE DL
Professor of Environment and Society
DVM Karl Karlsson
Independent Consultant  
Curriculum Vitae
Embla Eir Oddsdóttir
Director, Icelandic Arctic Cooperation Network
Medy Dervovic
Associate Scientist - Ph.D. Candidate, Reykjavik University
Curriculum Vitae