Positions Held
2021 – recent Director Research Centre Breiðdalsvík, University of Iceland
2014 – 2021 Geochemist, Iceland GeoSurvey (ÌSOR), Reykjavik, Iceland
2013 – 2014 Director International Master Program “Economic Geology”, Department of Geosciences, University of Oulu/Finland
2012 – 2014 Lecturer, Department of Geosciences, University of Oulu, Finland
2010 – 2012 Postdoctoral fellow, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
2006 – 2008 Research and teaching assistant at Institute of Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany 
2002 – 2005 Scientific student assistant at Institute of Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Germany
2001 – 2003 Geological field assistant in an engineering company “Klipfel-Lenhardt-Consult“, Endingen, Germany
Education
2009 Graduation Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany: Dr rer. nat. (magna cum laude). Title of PhD thesis: "Zeolites in fissures of crystalline basement rocks
2009 Hermann-Staudinger-Graduate School, Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany: 78.22 credit points (>20 credit points: above average participation)
2006 – 2009 Ph.D. study at the Institute of Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Freiburg, Germany
2005 Graduation Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany: Diploma (overall grade good). Title of diploma thesis: "Zeolite facies mineralisation in the Hvalfjördur area, Iceland"
2000 –2005 Geoscience study at the Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg; Areas of concentration: Mineralogy, Petrology, Geochemistry and Volcanology

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