Dr Ólafur Eysteinn Sigurjónsson has been appointed Dean of the School of Technology at RU
Dr Ólafur Eysteinn Sigurjónsson has been appointed Dean of the School of Technology at Reykjavík University. He's been teaching engineering at RU for almost 15 years as a professor, assistant professor and docent, in parallel with leading extensive activities and research at the Blood Bank of Landspítali University Hospital.
Ólafur Eysteinn received the RU Research Award in 2019. RU's School of Technology includes the Computer Science Department, the Engineering Department and the Applied Engineering Department. The School of Technology graduates the greatest number of technically educated people in Iceland, from undergraduate to doctoral level, and there are, among other things, world-class research centres in the field of health sciences.
Ólafur Eysteinn finished a B.Sc. degree in molecular biology from the University of Iceland in 1998 and an M.Sc. degree in health sciences from the same university in 2001. He graduated with a PhD in stem cell biology and immunology from the University of Oslo in 2006. Ólafur Eysteinn is the director of research and development and stem cell processing at the Blood bank, The Landspitali University Hospital and is an adjunct professor at the School of Health Sciences at the University of Iceland. He is the co-founder and CSO of Platome Biotechnologies. Ólafur Eysteinn is the current president of the Scandinavians Soceity of Biomaterials.
The research of Ólafur Eysteinn is within the field of regenerative medicine with a focus on developing methods for ex vivo culture of stem cells for clinical use and the use of tissue engineering and biomaterial sciences for bone development. He's also done research in the field of transfusion medicine with a focus on understanding the formation of storage lesions in platelets and red blood cells and how pathogen reduction may affect those processes.
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