Pro-Rector for Academic Affairs and Development

Steinunn Gestsdóttir is Professor at the University of Iceland Faculty of Psychology. She completed her PhD from Tufts University, Medford in the United States in 2005, an M.A. degree from Boston University in 2001, and a B.A. degree in Psychology from the University of Iceland in 1996.

Steinunn has held many administrative positions, within and outside of the University of Iceland. She was part of group forming a comprehensive policy for the University of Iceland 2011-2016, and was one of the two chairpersons for the strategy's steering committee for 2016-2021.

Steinunn chaired the research committee for the University's School of Education, was on the University Council Science Committee for several years, and a quality evaluation committee for the University of Iceland in 2012. Furthermore, she has been on the Science and Technology Policy Council since 2012, and is currently on the Board of Societas Scientariarum Islandica, Icelandic Student Innovation Fund and Iceland's Research Fund.