[4] She is chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Leifur Eiriksson Foundation, appointed by the Central Bank of Iceland and the University of Virginia.
[5] Kristin sits on the boards of two Icelandic research-based startup companies, Atmonia and Akthelia and is a member of the International Scientific Committee at the University of Grenoble in France.
[6] She is a board member of the European Women Rectors' Association (EWORA)[7] and the Committee of the Nordic Medical Research Councils (NOS-M).
She received her doctoral degree from King's College London (PhD, 1983),[1] in the field of pharmaceutical chemistry, focusing on natural products.
Her research has involved isolation and chemical identification of active pharmacological compounds from Icelandic lichens, mosses and marine organisms.