Two employees started working at IFL earlier this month, one in Reykjavík and the other in Höfn in Hornafjörður. Björn Þorgilsson will work at the Environment and Quality Department of IFL Research and Guðmundur Heiðar Gunnarsson at Höfn in Hornafjörður.
Björn Þorgilsson will mainly work on databases and risk assessment in the Environment and Quality Division of the IFL Research Division. He completed his M.Sc. degree in Toxicology from the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA in 2000. For the last four years, Björn was an employee of the Marine Research Institute and worked at the Laboratory of Stock Genetics, Keldnaholt.
Guðmundur Heiðar Gunnarsson is an employee at IFL's new office in Höfn in Hornafjörður. This is another of IFL's new offices, but earlier this year IFL's office in Sauðárkrókur was opened and IFL now operates in six locations in the country, outside Reykjavík. Guðmundur is a biochemist by education, took a BS degree in biochemistry at the University of Iceland in 1997 and will soon finish his doctoral studies at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Iceland. Guðmundur has facilities in New worlds, Little Bridge 2 in Höfn, a magnificent building that was inaugurated in 2002 and houses various activities.