Main official duties and administrative experience/memberships (since 2000): Chairman, Icelandic Hospital Infection Society, 1991-2006 National representative at the European Committee on Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing (EUCAST), 1997-2015 National coordinator for the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance EARS/EARS-Net since 1998 National coordinator for the European Surveillance on Antimicrobial Consumption ESAC, 2000-2012 President of the Nordic Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (NSCMID), 2010-2012 Chairman of the Intersectiorial Governmental Committee on Antimicrobial Use and Resistance in humans, animals and environment, 2000-2014 Vice-chairman for the State Communicable Disease Committee (Sóttvarnarráð) since 2012 European Center for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC), Stockholm National Microbiology Focal Point (national representative) since 2006 Antimicrobial Resistance Focal Point (national representative) since 2007 Associate editor, Eurosurveillance since 2007 Editorial board member Microb Drug Resist 1999-2015 and Scand J Infect Dis, now Infect Dis, since 1994. Main research awards, honours and grants: Grants from the EU-framework programmes, FP5, 2000: EURIS and FP6, 2003: PREVIS EEA/Norway Grant 2009, NIH 2005, with deCode Genetics, from GlaxoSmithKline 2013 and 2016 Main motivational grant Landspitali Univ Hospital 2011 Scientist of the year 2013, Landspitali Univ Hospital