I’m a postdoc at the Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat, jointly working in the labs of Derya Akkaynak and Miguel Frada. My work spans marine biogeochemistry, microbiology and bioinformatics, and I really enjoy turning data into visuals (examples below). Here is a CV. You can reach me on h.steinsdottir[at]pm.me.

Projects

Poster on phytoplankton dynamics presented at the IAAS conference, Nov 2025 [Link].

App for exploring diel cycles in a coral reef [Link]. Field work carried out in 2023.

App showing temperatures inside a smokehut compared to outside temp and wind [Link].

Dashboard of IFCB plankton images from the Gulf of Aqaba [Link].

Map and counts of eider duck nests in the Hraun colony from 1984 to 2025 [Link].

I come from a farm in north Iceland where we collect and clean eiderdown and make eiderdown bedding [Link].

App showing data on bycatch in lumpfish gillnets, Húnaflói Bay in 2022 [Link].

PhD thesis. Dynamics, pathways and controls of anaerobic methane oxidation in coastal waters [Link]. Defended Nov 2021.