[Jan-May 2026] Teaching "Electromagnetism 1" ( 8 ECTS / EÐL401G).
[Aug-Nov 2025] Teaching "Formal Languages and Computability " (6 ECTS).
[Aug-Nov 2025] Teaching "Quantum Computing and Quantum Cryptography" (6 ECTS).
[25-27 Nov 2025] "Python for Scientific Computing" online course. For more information and registration>> / Announcement>> [English] / [Icelandic]
[13 Oct 2025] Grant: AIFA-ICE (AI Factory Antenna – Iceland), HORIZON JU Research and Innovation Actions, Icelandic Co-PI
[27 Sept 2025] Visit booth on "Quantum Computers and Quantum Technologies: Securing Our Digital Future" (Skammtatölvur og skammtatækni: Að tryggja stafræna framtíð okkar) at Rannís' Science Week
[22 Sept 2025] Building Scalable AI Workflows with MATLAB - will involve hands-on sessions where participants will get to submit jobs on IREI HPC cluster. For more information and registration >>
[Sept 2025] Grant: EDIH-IS 2.0, Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL), Icelandic Co-PI
[9 Sept 2025] CodeRefinery Workshop. Register here [Link].
-> Sep 9-11 (09:00-13:30) and Sep 17, 24, Oct 1, 8, 15, 22 (10:00-12:30), 2025 (Iceland time).
[8 Sept 2025] Icelandic researchers will get to learn how to submit MATLAB jobs on IREI HPC cluster. For more information and registration>>
[28 Aug 2025] Talk on "Securing Our Digital Future: The Quantum Threat and Post-Quantum Cryptography" at the 21st IHPC Workshop, Reykjavik, Iceland
[19 Aug 2025] Started Teaching "Formal Languages and Computability " (6 ECTS).
[18 Aug 2025] Started teaching "Quantum Computing and Quantum Cryptography" (6 ECTS) as a part of the cybersecurity master's program.
[09 July 2025] Appointed as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Faculty of IMC (Industrial Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science), University of Iceland, for a period of five years. This position focuses on teaching and research in Electronic Structure Theory and materials modeling, HPC, quantum methods, and AI. It opens up possibilities for collaboration, student exchange, and joint research.
[22-23 May 2025] Attended CodeRefinery Phase 4 kick-off meeting in Gothenburg, Sweden
[20-21 May 2025] Attended Nordic-RSE conference in Gothenburg, Sweden
[27th Mar 2025] Talk on "Density Functional Theory-Based Approaches for Excited States: From Methodology to Code Development" in the Department of Physics at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Ropar, Punjab, INDIA.
[21st Mar 2025] Talk on "Simulating Molecular Excited States: Challenges and New Approaches" in the Department of Physics at IIT Jodhpur, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, INDIA.
[20th Mar 2025] Talk on "Quantum Computing: A New Paradigm for Physics and Computation" in the Department of Physics at SVNIT, Surat, Gujarat, India
[11th Feb 2025] Organized IUPAC's Global Women's Breakfast (GWB) / Women in Science 2025. This year’s GWB theme is "Accelerating Equity in Science". The Global Breakfast is designed to support the United Nations Day of Women and Girls in Science. In 2025, the GWB will also be a key part of the Celebration of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology.
[08 Feb 2025] Visit booth on "Quantum World: Explore the Future of Technology" at UTmessan Tech Day
[04 Feb 2025] Flash talk at DAEMON General meeting 03-05/02/25, Porto, Portugal
[09 Dec 2024] The paper 'Surface-Level Morphological Segmentation of Low-resource Inuktitut Using Pre-trained Large Language Models' has been accepted for oral presentation at the NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025 conference and inclusion in the proceedings. Nice work by the PhD student, Mathias Stenlund.
[02-04 Dec 2024] Talk at the Quantum Autumn School (QAS2024) in the session on "Error Correction – Theory and Hands-On"
[23-24 Nóv 2024] Co-organized GAGNAÞON 2024 (hackathon event) and GAGNVIST 2024, in partnership with Statistics Iceland, EDIH-IS, National competence center for HPC & AI in Iceland (NCC IS), the University of Iceland, and others. GAGNAÞON 2024 was a hackathon where participants worked together to solve real-world problems (Borgalina train) using high-value data sets (HVDS).
[17-19 Oct 2024] Attended the 2024 Arctic Circle Assembly, Reykjavík, Iceland
[28th Sept 2024] At Rannís' Science Week? Checkout our booth on "Quantum Computers and Quantum Technologies: A New Era of Computing (Skammtatölvur og skammtatækni: Ný tölvuöld)"
[09, 16, 25 Sept. 2024] Icelandic organizer of the three-part workshop series on parallel computing and AI using large compute resources: "Mondays with MATLAB – Nordic HPC Workshops". For more details, see:
[August 2024] Paper accepted in Supramolecular Chemistry (Sreejith Sudhakaran Jayabhavan, Hemanadhan Myneni, Morris Riedel, and Krishna K. Damodaran, Analyzing the Self-Assembly Modes in Chiral Multi-Component Gels Based on Donor and Acceptor Moieties, Supramolecular Chemistry (Accepted))
[21-26 July 2024] Invited Talk on "Machine Learning-Assisted Quantum Simulations for Photoactive Materials" at the International Conference on 60 Years of DFT: Advancements in Theory & Computation, IIT Mandi.
[27-29 May 2024] Talk on "Simplify Access to HPC Systems for Research on AI- and Simulation-Based Engineering via the LAMEC Job Script Builder" at the NeIC 2024 - Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration Conference "Nordic e-Infrastructure Tomorrow".
[20-21 Nov 2023] At TrustLLM Kick-Off Meeting, Linköping, Sweden (20-21 November 2023).
[30th Sept 2023] At Rannís' Science Week? Checkout our booth on "Quantum Computers and Quantum Technologies: A New Era of Computing (Skammtatölvur og skammtatækni: Ný tölvuöld)"
[Autumn 2023] Taught "Introduction to Quantum Mechanics (EÐL306G)"
[Autumn 2023] Taught "Nuclear and Particles Physics (EÐL506G)"
[29th Mar 2023] Talk on "An Overview of the European HPC Strategy and Highlights from the Icelandic HPC Communities" at the summer school on "High Performance and Disruptive Computing in Remote Sensing", Reykjavik, Iceland
[27th Mar 2023] Attended "Spring School on Quantum Information Processing - Gate-based and Annealing Systems" organized by the Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany.
[14th Feb 2023] Organized IUPAC's Global Women's Breakfast (GWB) 2023 for the first time in Reykjavík's, Iceland. This year’s GWB theme is "Breaking Barriers in Science". The Global Breakfast is designed to support the United Nations Day of Women and Girls in Science. In 2023, the GWB will also be a key part of the Celebration of the International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development.
[28th Nov 2022] Attended “QC-4C: Quantum Computers for Chemistry” at the University of Helsinki, Kumpula campus, Helsinki, Finland.
[27th Oct 2022] Talk on "Towards Quantum Cryptography and Cyber Security Impacts" at the Icelandic HPC Community Workshop on Cyber Security (slides).
# Last update: 24 July 2025