Inga Bergmann Árnadóttir

Inga Bergmann Árnadóttir (born 1955) is a professor at the University of Iceland Faculty of Odontology.

Career Inga completed a cand. odont. degree from the Royal Dental College in Aarhus, Denmark in 1981. She completed her thesis at the Nordic School of Public Health in Gothenburg in 1983 on Sammehæng mellem forbrug af sukker og caries i Island.

She graduated with a Master of Public Health degree in dept. health policy and administration with a focus on dental hygiene from the University of North Carolina in 1995, with a thesis on: Approximal caries and sugar consumption in Icelandic teenagers. She obtained a doctorate (Doctor odont.) from the University of Iceland in 2005 in Dental health and related lifestyle factors in Icelandic teenagers.

From 1985 to 1987, Inga was a sessional lecturer at the Faculty of Odontology and an adjunct lecturer from 1987 to 1993, as well as programme director for dental technology at Fjölbrautarskólinn við Ármúla. She became a lecturer at the Faculty of Odontology in 1997, a senior lecturer in 2003 and a professor in 2009, the first female professor at the Faculty of Odontology. Inga was also the first female head of the Faculty of Odontology, holding the position from 2006 to 2010. Inga is now a professor at the Faculty of Odontology, University of Iceland.

Over the years, Inga has held many positions of trust at the University of Iceland and elsewhere. For example, she sits on the doctoral studies committee and the science committee at the School of Health Sciences, a committee for community outreach by academic staff, and a joint committee for the University of Iceland and the Directorate of Immigration.

Research Inga's research spans a broad field within dental health and related lifestyle factors in children and teenagers. She has been involved in a large number of Icelandic and international research projects and has written many book chapters and articles.

Personal life Inga's parents were Kristín Gísladóttir, housewife and seamstress (1914–1994) and Árni Bergmann Oddsson, foreman (1909–1972). Inga has two children, Huldar Örn Andrésson (1984–2006) and Birta Dögg Ingudóttir Andrésdóttir (1988).