Hans Kristjan GUDMUNDSSON

HANS KRISTJAN GUDMUNDSSON is a physicist and engineer with a doctoral degree in Solid State Physics (TechnD) from KTH, Stockholm, 1982. After research, teaching and administrative careers at KTH, the University of Iceland and the Iceland Technology Institute, IceTec, Hans Kristjan Gudmundsson served as a scientific counselor with EFTA, the European Free Trade Organisation, from 1992 to 1994 and at the Icelandic Mission to the EU in Brussels from 1995-1999. He was member of the Nordic Science Policy Council 1996-1999, served as Rector of NorFA, the Nordic Academy for Advanced Study, in Oslo, Norway, from 1999-2003 and in 2004 as chairman of the NorFA Governing Board. The years 2004-2006 Gudmundsson held the vice chair of IGFA, the International Group of Funding Agencies for Global Change Research. In 2003-2008 he was General Director of RANNIS, The Icelandic Centre for Research. He then served as Dean of the Faculty of Business and Science at the University of Akureyri, He has an extensive experience of international cooperation on the Nordic and European Arena on research, research training, science policy and administration. After retiring in 2012 he has been working on different projects cultivating his interests.