Snæbjörn Pálsson is a Professor in Population Biology at University of Iceland. He got a Bachelors degree in biology 1988 from University of Iceland, masters degree 1992 from SUNY at Stony Brook USA, and PhD in genetics 1999 from Uppsala University, Sweden. He worked as a scientist at Decode Genetics, Iceland 2000-2001 and later during 2007-2010. During 2002-2004 he was postdoctoral researcher at University of Iceland when he became an associate professor at University of Iceland and professor in 2012. His research interest focus on evolutionary biology, impact of deleterious mutations and mostly on origin, genetic and morphological variation of various species in Iceland, e.g., endemic groundwater Amphipods, subspecies of birds and white-tailed eagles, applying simulations, molecular and statistical methods. Snæbjörn is currently a member of the Crustaean Society and the Nordic Society Oikos.