Forstöðumaður Rannsókna- og Fræðasetur Háskóla Íslands á Vestfjörðum.
Guðbjörg Ásta Ólafsdóttir has been the director of the University of Iceland's Research Centre of the Westfjords since fall 2007. She received her BSc in Biology from the University of Iceland in 2000 and a PhD in Zoology from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland in 2005. Both her PhD and postdoctoral work have focused primarily on understanding the formation and maintenance of biodiversity, using fish as a model species.

Her current research involves both theoretical issues and more applied questions concerning variation in natural populations, both in marine and freshwater environments. Her projects commonly combine multiple biological approaches, population ecology, molecular ecology, behaviour ecology and modelling.

Námskeið

Coastal and marine ecology 2008-2009
Coastal and marine ecology 2009-2010

Rannsóknir

Current research involves both theoretical issues and more applied questions concerning variation in natural populations, both in marine and freshwater environments.