A number of academics work at the University of Akureyri and pursue diverse research projects. Here, you can search for academics by field of specialty:
Learn more about the work and life of our scientists in a series of interviews:
Research
Research work is one of the cornerstones in the operations of the University of Akureyri
Research projects at UNAK
CLEO - Cultural Memory in Europe: Commemoration, memory making, and identity in the 21st century
PurpleGain
The biotechnological development of purple phototrophic bacteria (PPB) focuses on resource recovery from waste sources, contributing to a circular bioeconomy. PURPLEGAIN aims to create a European network to share information, facilitating technology and knowledge transfer between the academic and industrial sectors, related to PPB applications for resource recovery from organic waste sources. Resource recovery includes wastewater or organic waste, open or closed environments, in single or chain processes. The network associates fundamental-focused and applied-research groups, improving lab-scale technology optimization through mechanistic modeling. It benefits the technology transfer from applied-research groups to industry, considerably improving process design.
Lava tubes as microbial habitats and planetary analogues
Lava tube caves are host to a fascinating microbiota that grows in mats or crusts sometimes visible to the naked eye. The biogeochemistry of these microbes, including their adaptational response to these oligotrophic environments, potential roles in speleothem formation and biogeochemical cycling of basalt components. Furthermore, Icelandic lava tubes make for attractive planetary analogues for astrobilogical studies, as they share many features with comparable cave systems in other rocky planets where life may have subsisted in the past.
Research institutes
RHA-University of Akureyri Research Centre
The University of Akureyri Research Centre is an independent unit within the University of Akureyri.
Institute of Health Science Research, University of Akureyri
The Institute of Health Science Research (HHA) is a joint forum for the employees of Akureyri Hospital (SAk) and the University of Akureyri (UNAK).
Icelandic Tourism Research Centre
The Icelandic Tourism Research Centre is operated by the University of Akureyri, University of Iceland, Hólar University College, Icelandic Travel Industry Association and Icelandic Tourist Board.
Research Centre Against Violence
The purpose of the Research Centre Against Violence is to strengthen research and increase knowledge of the manifestations of violence, its consequences and ways to eliminate it.
Fisheries Science Centre
The Fisheries Science Centre of the University of Akureyri (SHA) is under the School of Business and Science at the University. The Fisheries Science Centre is intended to strengthen ties between the University and industry.
