Project manager and Assistant professor, Matís and the University of Iceland
Hildur has been at Matís as a student and later employee for the last 9 years and is currently a project manager and researcher there. Further she holds a position as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Food Science and Nutrition at the University of Iceland and has been part of that faculty in one way or another for over a decade. Hildur is a food scientist and earned here PhD through an industrially driven project at the University of Iceland where she specialised in quality evaluation, storage stability and use of processing technology in pelagic fish processing, emphasising on Atlantic mackerel.
Through her work at Matís and the University of Iceland Hildur has had the opportunity to participate in various projects throughout the years with a varied focus and gotten the chance to cooperate with researchers from varied backgrounds and to supervise students of different fields. Her main research focus relates to utilisation and quality of seafood and marine products with the aim of maintaining or improving product quality and testing and implementing potential methods for further utilisation and valorisation of previously under valorised material or side raw material. The overall aim of the work is to explore ways in which we, as a society, can better use the material we harvest in a sustainable and practical way.
