Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987 - 1992.

PhD in Mathematics, February 1992.
Thesis Advisor: Professor Richard P. Stanley

University of Pennsylvania, 1983 - 1987.

BA in Mathematics, Minor in Philosophy, May 1987.
MA in Mathematics, May 1987

Employment

Professor, Reykjavik University, From 2004
Dean of Research, Reykjavik University, 2007-2008
Professor, highest rank, Chalmers, 2004 - 2007
Professor, Chalmers, 2002 - 2004
Research scientist, Decode Genetics (part time) 2001-2003
Docent, Chalmers, 1998-2002
Lecturer, Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, 1992-1998

Doctoral students supervised

Marteinn Þór Harðarsson, PhD expected 2012
Pawel Bartoszek, PhD expected 2011
Petter Brändén, PhD May 2005, (Currently at Royal Inst. Technology)
Anders Claesson, PhD February 2004, (Currently at Reykjavik University)
Sergey Kitaev, PhD January 2003, (Currently at Reykjavik University)
Antoine Vella, Visiting, Spring 2003, (Currently at University of Malta)

Postdoctoral mentor for

Vít Jelínek, From 2009
Martina Kubitzke, From 2009
Henning Úlfarsson, From 2009
Anisse Kasraoui, From 2009
Robert Parviainen, From 2008
Amy Glen, 2008--2009
Toufik Mansour, 2002-2003, (Currently at University of Haifa)

Research Grants

Grant for Excellence: Combinatorics on Words and Permutations, Iceland Research Fund 2009-2011

Grant for Excellence: Permutation Patterns, Iceland Research Fund 2006-2008

Project Grant: Permutations, patterns and algebras, Iceland Research Fund 2008-2010

Grant for a postdoc and a predoc at Chalmers 2002-2003
European Union, via the network Algebraic Combinatorics in Europe

Special support for combinatorics at Chalmers 1998-2000
Chalmers tekniska högskola (stiftelsen)

Grant for inviting collaborators from abroad 1997
Adlerbertska Research Fund

Postdoctoral grant, The EU-Network in Algebraic Combinatorics 1995-1996
for visiting Université Louis-Pasteur in Strasbourg for three months

Research grant, The Icelandic Council of Science 1994

Research grant,Royal Swedish Academy of Science (Magnuson's fund) 1993

Research grant, The Icelandic Council of Science 1993

Research grant for young researchers, Stiftelsen Lars Hiertas minne 1992

Research grant, The Icelandic Council of Science 1992

Other research-related activities

Founding director of the Mathematics Institute at Reykjavik University

Head of the Combinatorics Group at Reykjavik University

Head of the Combinatorics Group at CTH/GU, 1998-2005

Organizer of the Combinatorics Seminar at CTH/GU, 1997-2005

Guest editor, Annals of Combinatorics, special issue devoted to Permutation Patterns 2006

Member of the EU-sponsored network Algebraic Combinatorics in Europe, 2002-2005

Chair, Organizing Committee, Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics 2011

Member, Program Committee, Formal Power Series and Algebraic Combinatorics 2003, 2004, 2008

Member, Organizing/Program Committe, Permutation Patterns 2004, 2007

Chair, Organizing/Program Committe, Permutation Patterns 2006

Organizer of the Combinatorics Session, 24th Nordic and 1st Franco-Nordic Congress of Mathematicians, 2005

Referee work for J. Alg. Combin., J. Combin. Theory Ser. A, Electronic J. Combin., Disc. Math., Adv. Appl. Math., Sém. Loth. Combin., Europ. J. Combin., Disc. Math. Theor. Comp. Sc., Theoret. Comput. Sci., BIT, SIAM J. Disc. Math., Canadian Math. Bull., FPSAC

Reviewer, Swedish Research Council 2008

Reviewer, US National Security Agency (via the American Mathematical Society), 2007, 2008

Member, Grant Evaluation Committee, Iceland Research Fund, 2005-2006

Publications

All my papers can be obtained from this page.
My papers on Google Scholar

The Mathematics Institute, Reykjavik University, Kringlan 1, 103 Reykjavik, Iceland