The 2025 election for rector of the University of Iceland will be held online. Voting will start at 9 am on 18 March and finish at 5 pm on 19 March. The election will be held in Ugla, the UI intranet.
The Rector has decided, in consultation with the President of the Faculty of Humanities, that Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, former President of Iceland and Professor of History at the University of Iceland, will become the Jón Sigurðsson Professor at the University of Iceland from 1 July.
The Agricultural University of Iceland and the University of Iceland have joined forces with the support of the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation to offer a master's programme in sustainable agriculture and regional development starting next autumn.
The scientists from 11 institutions in 7 countries across Europe will connect sophisticated climate and ice flow models with field and satellite data to improve our understanding of the impact of climate change on land ice in the North Atlantic region.
The University of Iceland calls for original and innovative ideas among University students and staff that may contribute to society or industry for the annual Science and Innovation Award.
“In the past decade, a new approach to blue-green stormwater solutions has been gaining momentum – one based on using water as a resource where it falls rather than disposing of it,” says Hrund Ólöf Andradóttir, professor at the faculty of Civil and Engineering. She is leading a study on the multifaceted benefits of blue-green infrastructure in the city.
Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir, assistant professor at the Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies at the University of Iceland, who is participating in an international research project analysing emotional expression in the poems of the Icelandic sagas.
“Fertility of immigrants in Iceland hasn’t been researched before,” says Ari Klængur Jónsson, a project manager and researcher at UI. He is currently looking at the fertility rate of Polish immigrants as part of a larger project exploring fertility and childbearing intentions in Iceland from several perspectives.
Sæmundur Rögnvaldsson, a research specialist at the UI Faculty of Medicine, was recently awarded a grant of just over ISK 60 million from the World Cancer Research Fund for a study looking at how nutrition and body weight are linked to multiple myeloma precursor conditions and the likelihood of them developing into multiple myeloma.
You can learn more about over 400 undergraduate and graduate programmes at the 2025 University Open Day, which will be held on 1 March from 12 pm to 3 pm. Anyone who is interested can come and visit the UI campus, speak to instructors and students from specific programmes and find out more about the University and the services available to students.
