The board
Sigridur Sia Jonsdottir
President (Iceland)
Sigridur holds a PhD from Linnaeus University, Kalmar/Växjö in Sweden. Sia has a Clinical nurse specialist (CNS) degree from USA and a midwifery degree from Iceland and is a professor at the University of Akureyri (UNAK). She is currently in charge of a new MS program in Public Health Nursing. She is also a lecturer at the Midwifery education at the University of Iceland.
Sia has a clinical experience as a midwife/nurse in Iceland, USA and Norway and was a director of High-risk pregnancy clinic in Reykjavik, Iceland from 2000 - 2007. She had been on the Nordic Marce society board since 2023 and the president now from 2025 – 2027.
Her main research emphasizes is on pregnant women, their families, their mental well-being, along with their service needs. Other research focus is on public health care service in Iceland.
Eeva-Leena Kataja
Board member (Finland)
Eeva-Leena Kataja, PhD (psychology), psychotherapist (family therapy, specializing in parent-infant psychotherapy). Clinical psychologist, psychotherapist and researcher in the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study, University of Turku, Turku, Finland. Eeva-Leena's research focuses on understanding how pre- and postnatal stress influence parenthood and child development, and what are the mechanisms of transmission for both risk and protective factors.
Kathinka Meirik
Board member (Norway)
MD, psychiatrist and community medicine specialist, in Trondheim. Currently working as the County Medical Officer in the county of Trøndelag. Previous work includes supervision of the “Family ambulatorium” at the local hospital, caring for the family-to-be where one or more members struggled with psychiatric and/or
addiction problems, often combined with other negative social determinants.
Katrine Isabella Wendelboe
Board member (Denmark)
Licensed clinical psychology, PhD., assistant professor, Centre of Excellence in Early Intervention and Family Studies, Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen. Katrine's research focuses on detection of mental health challenges in both children and their caregivers, caregiver mentalizing skills, and evaluating caregiver interventions in family support services.
Elisabet Rondung
Board member (Sweden)
Elisabet is a licensed psychologist and senior lecturer in psychology at Mid Sweden University.
Vibe Frøkjær
Board member (Denmark)
MD, PhD, Clinical professor in Neuropsychiatry, Dept. of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Dr. Frøkjær's research centers on brain architecture on risk for mood disorders and how such insights can guide targeted prevention and treatment. In particular, she works with understanding hormonal contributions to depression which applies to perinatal mental health and beyond.
Fridur Gudmundsdottir
Board member (Iceland)
Fríður is a Clinical Psychologist and Video Interaction Guidance (VIG) practitioner with eight years of experience in parent–infant and early childhood mental health. She has specialized in attachment-based interventions, including Parent–Infant Psychotherapy (PIP), Newborn Behavioral Observations (NBO), and Parental Embodied Mentalization Assesment (PEMA). She currently works with the Family Team for Children Aged 0–5 years at the Child Mental Health Centre in Iceland, providing interventions for expectant parents and families with infants and young children. Her clinical work focuses on early relationships, parental sensitivity, parental mental health, and parenting stress. Previously, Fríður worked within Child Protection Services, supporting children and families in vulnerable situations. Her professional interests include infant mental health, early intervention, and the promotion of healthy parent–child relationships.