As was reported in a news item on IFL's website recently in connection with an aquaculture conference in Ísafjörður, Dr. Björn Þrándur Björnsson, professor at the University of Gothenburg, has been hired part-time at IFL. Björn Þrándur is one of Europe's leading experts in the field of fish physiology and will take part in IFL's policy in this field.
Björn Þrándur graduated with a BS in Biology from the University of Iceland in 1974 and a Ph.D. degree in animal physiology from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden in 1985. He conducted research and teaching at the Institute of Physiology at the University of Iceland in the years 1974-78 and research at the University of California at Berkeley in the years 1985-87. Björn has been an associate professor at the University of Gothenburg since 1988.