MANAGEMENT

KÁRI STEFÁNSSON
CEO

UNNUR ÞORSTEINSDÓTTIR
Vice President of Research
Unnur received her Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in biology from the University of Iceland, and completed a PhD degree in genetics at the University of British Columbia in 1997. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Experimental Hemato-Oncology and Gene Therapy Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montreal, and joined deCODE in 2000. Since 2003 she has led deCODE’s population genetics genetic work and is actively involved in wide range of genetic studies involving cardiovascular, metabolic, inflammatory and neurological diseases and cancers. From 2010 Unnur has been Vice President of Research at deCODE.

ÞÓRUNN RAFNAR
Head of Oncology

DANIEL GUDBJARTSSON
VP Applied Statistics

PATRICK SULEM
Head of Clinical Sequencing

HILMA HÓLM
Head of Cardiovascular

GÍSLI MÁSSON
VP Informatics
Gísli received his Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Mathematics from the University of Iceland in 1986 and completed a PhD degree in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991. During the years 1991 to 2000 he worked at the Mathematics Institute at Stockholm University, first as a post-doctoral fellow (forskarassistent) and later as an assistant professor (lektor).

AGNAR HELGASON
Head of Anthropology

HREINN STEFÁNSSON
Head of CNS

INGILEIF JÓNSDÓTTIR
Head of Infectious and Inflammatory diseases

BJARNI V. HALLDÓRSSON
Head of Sequence Analysis
Bjarni received his Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in mathematics from the University of Iceland in 1996, and completed a PhD in Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization from Carnegie Mellon University 2001. He was a research scientist at Celera Genomics, Rockville MD, from 2001 until he joined deCODE in 2004. He has been an associate professor of Biomedical Engineering at Reykjavík University from 2006. Since 2013 he has been Head of Sequence Analysis at deCODE.

GUÐMUNDUR L. NORÐDAHL
Head of Functional Genomics

PÁLL MELSTED
Head of RNA seqencing data

MAGNÚS ÖRN ÚLFARSSON
Head of Artificial Intelligence

JÓHANN HJARTARSON
General Counsel & Secretary

LÁRA INGÓLFSDÓTTIR
CFO