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Ólafur Ögmundarson - Associate Professor
–
School of Health Sciences
Ólafur Ögmundarson
Íslenska
Associate Professor
Location
Nýi Garður / Ng-305
Phone
+3547882855
Email
olafuro [at] hi.is
Unit
Faculty of Food Science and Nutrition
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3171-2388
Research portal – Ólafur Ögmundarson
 
Courses 2024 - 2025
UAU215F - Life Cycle Assessment
NÆR611M - Public Health Nutrition
UMV102G - The Engineering Profession and Responsibility of Engineers
MAT704F - Aquatic Food Primary Production: Fishery and aquaculture
MON102G - Food, nutrition and sustainability
Education
2019
,
Ph.D.
,
DTU -Technical University of Denmark
,
Environmental Management Engineering
2009
,
M.Sc.
,
University of Iceland
,
Environment- and Natural Resource Management
2004
,
Viðbótardiplóma
,
Hólar University College
,
Aquaculture
2002
,
BA
,
University of Iceland
,
German
Professional Experience
2021 -
,
Assistant Professor,
University of Iceland
2020 -
2021,
Adjunct,
University of Iceland
2019 -
2019,
Senior Sustainable-Innovation Manager,
Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability
2014 -
2017,
Project Manager,
Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability
2009 -
2013,
Project Manager,
Matís ltd
2003 -
2006,
Aquaculture specialist,
Hólar University College
Published works
2024
Environmental sustainability of food production and consumption in the nordic and baltic region - a scoping review for nordic nutrition recommendations 2023
Food and Nutrition Research
Environmental impacts of different single-use and multi-use packaging systems for fresh fish export
Journal of Cleaner Production
Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Food Consumption: Results from the Icelandic National Dietary Survey 2019–2021
Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Chemometrics for Effective Online Quality Monitoring and Process Control during Pelagic Fishmeal and Oil Processing
Foods
Can biotechnology lead the way toward a sustainable pharmaceutical industry?
Current Opinion in Biotechnology
Chemoenzymatic indican for light-driven denim dyeing
Nature Communications
Early-stage economic and environmental impact assessment for optimized bioprocess development
Bioresource Technology
Greenhouse gas emissions of environmentally sustainable diets
Journal of Cleaner Production
2023
Current status and future research needs on the quantitative water use of finfish aquaculture using Life Cycle Assessment
Journal of Cleaner Production
Constructed wetlands with recycled concrete for wastewater treatment in cold climate
Science of the Total Environment
Neighborhood-Level LCA and Hotspot Analysis of Embodied Emissions of a New Urban Area in Reykjavík
Sustainability (Switzerland)
Correction to: Veganism and Its Challenges: The Case of Iceland
Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
Veganism and Its Challenges
Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
Correction to: Veganism and Its Challenges: The Case of Iceland
Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
2022
Ecosystem services and disservices of meat and dairy production
Ecosystem Services
Fiberglass as a Novel Building Material
Architecture
Plastic Packaging Waste Management in Iceland
Sustainability (Switzerland)
Identification of environmental hotspots in fishmeal and fish oil production towards the optimization of energy-related processes
Journal of Cleaner Production
2021
Efficiency of fishmeal and fish oil processing of different pelagic fish species
Journal of Food Processing and Preservation
Commodity chemical production from third-generation biomass
Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining
2020
Environmental hotspots of lactic acid production systems
GCB Bioenergy
Combining Environmental and Economic Performance for Bioprocess Optimization
Trends in Biotechnology
Addressing environmental sustainability of biochemicals
Nature Sustainability
Metal residues in macroalgae feedstock and implications for microbial fermentation
Biomass and Bioenergy
The effects of varying heat treatments on lipid composition during pelagic fishmeal production
Processes
2019
Life Cycle Assessment of chosen Biochemicals and Bio-based polymers
2018
Toward a more sustainable biochemical industry. Early stage assessments and methodological overlaps between life cycle- and techno-economic assessments of biochemicals
2017
Measuring and increasing the sustainability of biochemicals: contrasting feedstock´s, biorefinery processes, and upscaling
Toward more sustainable biochemicals – Applying techno‐economic and life‐cycle assessments to target substances
Life Cycle Assessment of Icelandic Arctic Char Fed Three Different Feed Types
Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
Life cycle assessment of Icelandic arctic char fed three different feed types
Turkish Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
2016
Bio-based chemicals - green, but also sustainable?
The EU landing obligation and European small-scale fisheries
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Keywords for Specialisation:
Life cycle assessment
Biochemicals
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UN Sustainable Development Goals
Sustainable food-production
Circular economy
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