Staff

Prof. Peter Aczel

School: Computer Science, Mathematics

Interests: CS, mathematics

Mr. John Ainsworth

School: Community Based Medicine

Interests: medical informatics, privacy and confidentiality, ontologies, e-labs, data integration, secondary use, informatics for studies and trials, e-science

Keywords: Confidentiality; e-science; Medical informatics

Dr. Robert Alston

School: Cancer & Imaging Sciences

Interests: Cancer registration, statistics, epidemiology.

Keywords: Cancer; Statistics

Dr. Kinjiro Amano

School: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Interests: colour, vision, imaging

Keywords: Imaging

Dr. Sophia Ananiadou

School: Computer Science

Interests: Text Mining, Information Extraction, Terminology

Keywords: Text Mining

Ann Apps

School: Mimas

Interests: Digital Library, Discovery to Delivery, Context-sensitive linking, Metadata, Registries of resources, Service registries, Electronic publishing

Keywords: Data archiving

Dr. Mercedes Arguello casteleiro

School: Social Sciences

Interests: Towards Next-Generation Healthcare

Keywords: Healthcare

Dr. Kostas Arvanitis

School: Arts, Histories and Cultures

Interests: Museology, (public) archaeology and new media. Digital Heritage. Theory and practice of new media in museums and heritage sites. Use of mobile media in museums, such as mobile phones and hand-held computers, for purposes of curation, interpretation and learning.

Keywords: Multimedia

Dr. Marzieh Asgari-targhi

School: Social Sciences

Interests: Reasoning, Learning, Collaborative learning, The basis of computational models of many aspects of human cognition such as causal inferences, decision making, Cognitive development of reasoning.

Keywords: Cognitive Systems; Decision support; Reasoning

Ms. Bahar Ashnai

School: Manchester Business School

Interests: My research is related to Quantitative Modelling in Business Marketing. Specifically it addresses business relationships and models the impact of trust on business relationship quality.

Keywords: Business and marketing

Dr. Christopher Atkinson

School: Manchester Business School

Interests: information systems organisational development interprative studies soft systems humanchines Methodology

Keywords: Human computer interaction ; Information Management; Organisational development

Prof. Terri Attwood

School: Computer Science/Faculty of Life Sciences

Interests: Bioinformatics

Keywords: Bioinformatics

Mr. Jonathan Aylen

School: Manchester Business School

Interests: History of Computing Process Control Computers Defence Computers

Keywords: Process Control

Mr. Kenny Baird

School: Social Sciences

Interests: metadata, web2.0, learning content

Dr. Richard Banach

School: Computer Science

Interests: formal methods

Mr. Andrea Bardelli Danieli

School: Environment and Development

Interests: Development informatics ICT policy ICT4D ICT for development eGovernment

Keywords: eGovernment

Dr. Casey Bergman

School: Faculty of Life Sciences

Interests: Genome Bioinformatics/Evolution, Functional Genomics, Data and Text Mining

Keywords: Genomics; Machine learning; Text Mining

Mr. Christopher Birchenhall

School: Social Sciences

Interests: Economic modelling, Sustainable Consumption with an emphasis on global warming

Keywords: Modelling

Prof. Alexandre Borovik

School: Mathematics

Interests: cryptography

Keywords: Cryptography

Dr. Matt-mouley Bouamrane

School: Computer Science

Interests: semantic web and ontology, intelligent user interfaces, adaptability and accessibility, human computer interaction and usability

Keywords: Human computer interaction ; Ontologies; Semantic web; Usability

Prof. Andy Brass

School: Computer Science/Faculty of Life Sciences

Interests: Bioinformatics

Keywords: Bioinformatics

Dr. John Brooke

School: Computer Science

Interests: e-Laboratories, Computational science, Distributed Computing

Keywords: Computational Science; Distributed Computing; e-Research; e-science

Miss. Susan Brown

School: Education

Interests: E-learning Courseware Development, Semantic Web and language learning, Computer Assisted Language Learning

Keywords: Semantic web

Prof. Anthony Brown

School: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Interests: Wireless Communications, Medical Application of Communications,Sensor Networks

Keywords: Medical informatics; Wireless Communications

Dr. Richard Bryce

School: Pharmacy

Interests: cheminformatics,ligand database screening,computer-aided drug design,algorithm development,molecular physics/simulation/quantum chemistry

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Cancer; Complexity; Computational Science; Distributed Computing; e-science; High Performance Computing; Machine learning; Modelling ; Parallel Computing; Simulation; Software engineering

Prof. Iain Buchan

School: Community Based Medicine

Interests: Bio and Health Informatics

Keywords: Bioinformatics; e-Research; Medical informatics

Dr. David Buckley

School: Cancer & Imaging Sciences

Interests: Biophysics, modelling, Medical Imaging

Keywords: Imaging; Modelling

Dr. Adam Byron

School: Faculty of Life Sciences

Interests: I am using mass spectrometry-based proteomics and interaction network modelling approaches to investigate integrin-based signalling complexes, which are key regulators of cell adhesion.

Keywords: Bioinformatics; Complexity; Networking; Signal processing; Spectrometry

Dr. Gayle Calverley

School: Teaching & Learning Support Office

Interests: R&D related to national and international developments in technology and infrastructure that may affect the way an organisation delivers its provision for learning, including: - reuse and repurposing of material for learning - metadata application and development - resource search and discovery - technical standards and specifications - delivery of image and streaming video - user-oriented design - practice and change in technological implementation - legal, strategic and policy consultation - steering and advisory work

Keywords: Usability

Mr. Malcolm Chapman

School: Manchester Museum

Interests: I'm interested in real-world applications and possibilities for interpretation within a musuem and gallery environment.

Dr. Leonard Chavas

School: Faculty of Life Sciences

Interests: database, protein structure, modelling, data extraction, tutorial generation

Keywords: Data management; Modelling

Dr. Ke Chen

School: Computer Science

Interests: Cognitive Systems, Artificial Intelligence, e-Health, Computational Modeling

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Cognitive Systems; e-Health; Modelling

Dr. Hector Chinoy

School: Translational medicine

Interests: The genomics of inflammatory muscle disease, examining via a whole genome association scan approach, hundreds of thousands of genetic variants to isolate disease susceptibility genes

Keywords: Bioinformatics; Genomics; Healthcare

Nick Clarke

School: Materials

Interests: Expert Evaluator: European Commission INFSO/E.2. Expert Evaluator and ICT Project Assessor: European Commission DGXII-AG Science, Research and Development. 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th Framework evaluation, multimedia and electronic publishing technologies.

Keywords: Multimedia

Prof. Timothy Cootes

School: Cancer & Imaging Sciences

Interests: Computer Vision, Medical Image Interpretation

Dr. Fumie Costen

School: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Interests: computation in electromagnetics, distributed computing, UWB

Keywords: Computational Science; Distributed Computing; Wireless Communications

Mr. Ian Cottam

School: Manchester Interdisciplinary Biosciences

Interests: Helping to support EPS staff with Research Computing, such as Condor HTC pools.

Prof. Bob Cottis

School: Materials

Interests: Modelling of corrosion processes using finite element, neural network and similar methods. Application of informatics to corrosion engineering, including metadata definition for corrosion information.

Keywords: Knowlege Management; Modelling

Dr. William Craig

School: Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering

Interests: Not active research-wise in this field bu interested in applications for teaching

Mr. Michael Daw

School: Research Computing Services

Interests: Virtual Research Environments, e-Research, services

Keywords: e-Research; Services

Dr. Philip Day

School: Translational Medicine

Interests: micro-array analyses, interdisciplinary data integration, quantification, single cell analyses, cells in populations.

Keywords: Biohealth informatics

Mr. Mark Delderfield

School: Community Based Medicine

Interests: Bio Health Informatics, Genomics, HPC Accessible High Performance Computing, NIBHI

Keywords: Bioinformatics; Genomics; High Performance Computing

Dr. Hilary Dexter

School: Medicine

Interests: medical education domain modelling

Keywords: Bioinformatics; Complexity; Data management; Decision support; Healthcare; Knowlege Management; Modelling ; Ontologies; Semantic web; Text Mining

Mrs. Carmel Dickinson

School: Manchester Informatics

Interests: Programme Manager for Manchester Informatics

Dr. Paul Dobson

School: Chemistry

Interests: bioinformatics, cheminformatics, drug discovery, chemistry, biology, protein

Keywords: Bioinformatics

Prof. Andrew Doig

School: Faculty of Life Sciences

Interests: protein structure, protein function, drug discovery, machine learning, spectroscopy,

Keywords: Machine learning; Spectrometry

Mr. Pascal Ekin

School: Social Science (NCeSS)

Interests: social, economics, grid, distributed computing, neural, artificial intelligence

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Distributed Computing; Social economics

Dr. Mark Elliot

School: Social Sciences

Interests: Confidentiality, Electronic Health Records systems, Citizen access, Privacy 2.0, Knowledge Engineering, Knowledge Management

Keywords: Confidentiality; Knowlege Management; Medical informatics

Sam Farrell

School: Chemical Engineering & Analytical Science/Faculty of Life Sciences

Interests: Part of Systems Biology DTC. PhD with Chris Knight, evolution of wsp signalling system in P.fluorescens

Dr. Alvaro Fernandes

School: Computer Science

Interests: Information Management

Keywords: Information Management

Dr. Antonio Filippone

School: Mechanical, Aerospace, Civil Engineering

Interests: modelling and simulation, software engineering, computational aerodynamics

Keywords: Modelling ; Software engineering

Ms. June Finch

School: Social Sciences

Interests: NCeSS

Keywords: e-Social Science

Prof. David Foster

School: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Interests: Visual information processing; spectral scene analysis; hyperspectral imaging; modelling human performance; psychophysics

Keywords: Imaging; Modelling

Dr. Len Freeman

School: Computer Science

Interests: Computational Science, Parallel Computing, High Performance Scientific Computing.

Keywords: Computational Science; High Performance Computing; Parallel Computing

Prof. Simon French

School: Manchester Business School

Interests: decision support, information systems, collaboration, knowledge management,

Dr. Phil Galvin

School: Business Relations

Interests: Business Development Activity

Dr. Ping Gao

School: Environment and Development

Prof. Carole Goble

School: Computer Science

Keywords: Data management; e-Research; e-science; Information Management

Mr. Javier Gomez Alonso

School: Faculty of Life Sciences

Dr. Esther Gomez-Sierra

School: Languages, Linguistics and Cultures

Interests: Databases, Use of databases, Building of databases, Extensive and intensive web-search, e-journals, Digitization (of ancient texts, in my case)

Keywords: Digitization; e-Research

Dr. Victor m. Gonzalez

School: Manchester Business School

Interests: Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience Research Management and Design, Personal Productivity Practices and Tools, Community Informatics

Keywords: Human computer interaction

Dr. James Graham

School: Cancer and Imaging Sciences

Interests: Medical Image Analysis, Biological Image Analysis, Computer Vision

Keywords: Imaging

Dr. Sam Griffiths-Jones

School: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Interests: Genomics, RNA computational biology, sequence analysis

Keywords: Computational Science; Genomics

Prof. John Gurd

School: Computer Science

Interests: Computational Science & Engineering, high performance computing

Keywords: Computational Science; High Performance Computing

Robert Haines

School: Research Computing Services

Interests: Computational Steering of anything up to large-scale simulation codes including, but not limited to, the areas of Materials Science, Computational Chemistry and Medical Informatics. Such codes can be hosted in Grids utilizing multi-site computational facilities and Emergency/Urgent Computing techniques.

Keywords: Computational Fluid Dynamics; Computational Science; Distributed Computing; e-Research; e-science; High Performance Computing; Imaging; Medical informatics; Modelling ; Networking; Parallel Computing; Services; Simulation; Software engineering

Prof. Peter Halfpenny

School: Social Science (NCeSS)

Interests: NCeSS, e-Social Science

Keywords: e-Social Science

Mrs. Ursula Hayes

School: Computer Science

Interests: N/A (Research Development Manager)

Prof. Richard Heeks

School: Environment and Development

Interests: International development (ICT4D), Developing countries, e-Government, Mobiles and society, IT sector development, Impact assessment, Offshoring and outsourcing,

Keywords: eGovernment

Dr. Alex Henderson

School: Chemical Engineering & Analytical Science

Keywords: Spectrometry

Dr. Alex Henderson

School: CEAS

Interests: Chemistry Cheminformatics Spectroscopy Spectrometry Mass spectra Chemical images Data archiving

Dr. Martin Henery

School: Manchester Enterprise Centre

Interests: Work for MSEC and interested in innovation and commercialisation of technology

Prof. Nicholas Higham

School: Mathematics

Interests: Numerical analysis, scientific computing. matrix computations

Dr. Andrew Howes

School: Education

Interests: ICT in schools E-pedagogy online communities

Prof. Andrew Howes

School: Manchester Business School

Interests: Cognitive Science, Cognitive Modeling, Social network modeling, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Supported Cooperative work, Informatics,

Keywords: Cognitive Systems; Human computer interaction ; Modelling

Dr. David Hoyle

School: Community Based Medicine

Interests: bioinformatics, biohealth informatics, machine learning, statistical physics, statistics

Keywords: Biohealth informatics; Bioinformatics; Machine learning; Statistics

Dr. Simon Hubbard

School: Faculty of Life Sciences

Interests: Bioinformatics and computational biology allied to the analysis of genomes and their protein gene products. In particular we work in the area of proteomics, attempting to analyse mass spectral data to identify and quantify proteins and peptides.

Keywords: Bioinformatics; Genomics

Mr. Adam Huffman

School: Faculty of Life Sciences

Interests: Senior Experimental Officer in Life Sciences

Dr. Basma Issa

School: Medicine

Mr. Alan Jervis

School: Education

Interests: ICT, schools, VLE, MLE, online learning, child safety on the internet, personalised learning, children's concetions of computers

Rebecca Jones

School: Community Based Medicine

Keywords: Medical informatics

Prof. Anthony Jones

School: Translational Medicine

Interests: We have an NIHR Programme Grant Pending on management of musculoskeletal pain in GP surgeries. We are keen within that to establish routine ways of establishing a clinical data base for musculoskeletal pain regionally and nationally in colaboration with colleagues in the NW Musculoskeletal Network (Dir: Deborah Symmons) and the nasceant National Pain Research Network. Please let us know if this is of any interest

Mr. Andrew Jones

School: Research computing Services

Interests: HPC, many-core, specialist data/signal processing, computational electromagnetics, datacentre and large supercomputer service futures

Mr. Kiran Kalidindi

School: Manchester Business School

Interests: Cognitive science, neuroscience, cognitive systems.

Dr. Mark Kambites

School: Mathematics

Interests: I am a pure mathematician interested in the applications of algebra in information security (primarily in cryptography and cryptanalysis).

Keywords: Cryptography

Mrs. Bharathi Kattamuri

School: Research Computing Services

Interests: e-Research, Computational Biology

Dr. Xiayi Ke

School: Translational Medicine

Interests: Statistical genetics, genome-wide genetic data mining, gene-gene and gene-environment interactions.

Keywords: Genomics; Statistics

Dr.. Sanjay Kharche

School: Physics and Astronomy

Interests: The services from informatics that I find helpful in my research are the HPC, HPV and data storage.

Keywords: Bioinformatics; Computational Science; Modelling ; Parallel Computing; Simulation

Richard Kingston

School: Environment and Development

Interests: I am currently involved in a £2.3m EPSRC project developing a Regeneration Simulation Workbench using advanced ICT tools, including Google Earth/Maps, spatial simulation and GIS. All my research can be found here: http://www.ppgis.manchester.ac.uk/

Prof. Daniel Kirschen

School: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Interests: Development of mathematical models of power systems

Keywords: Modelling

Prof. Daniel Kirschen

School: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Interests: Application of numerical methods in power system analysis, operation and planning.

Dr. Chris Knight

School: Faculty of Life Sciences

Interests: Evolution Bioinformatics Sequence Mutation Protein DNA Yeast

Keywords: Bioinformatics

Dr. Joshua Knowles

School: Computer Science

Interests: machine learning optimization evolutionary computing systems biology synthetic biology computational biology

Keywords: Computational Science; Machine learning

Ms. Anita Lamb

School: Nursing, Child and Social Work

Prof. Dominique Laurence

School: Chemical Engineering & Analytical Science

Interests: CFD, Direct and Large Eddy Simulation of turbulent flows, Open source fluids and structures codes see eg: http://cfd.mace.manchester.ac.uk/Saturne

Keywords: Computational Fluid Dynamics; Computational Science

Prof. Dominique Laurence

School: Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering

Interests: CFD, HPC, Computational Fluid Dynamics, turbulence, open source software. official URL: http://www.mace.manchester.ac.uk/research/sigs/cfd/

Keywords: Computational Fluid Dynamics; Computational Science

Dr. Yuwei Lin

School: Social Sciences,

Interests: e-Science, e-Social Science, Usability studies, User community engagement, engineering, Sociology of Science and Technology,

Keywords: e-science; e-Social Science; Usability

Prof. Jon Lloyd

School: Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences

Interests: I have broad interests in environmental microbiology that interface with bioinformatics and molecular-scale modeling.

Keywords: Bioinformatics

Dr. Simon Lovell

School: Faculty of Life Sciences

Interests: Bioinformatics, computational biology, protein structure, evolution

Keywords: Bioinformatics

Ms. Jo Lowe

School: Medicine

Keywords: Imaging

Dr. Mikel Lujan

School: Computer Science

Interests: Computer Architecture

Mr. Pramod Luthra

School: Medicine

Ms. Helen Manchester

School: Education

Interests: community media social justice and inequality

Dr. Lee Margetts

School: Research Computing Services

Interests: Computational modelling, e-Research.

Dr. Andrew Masters

School: Chemical Engineering & Analytical Science

Interests: simulation and modelling of liquids, polymers and liquid crystals

Dr. Julian Matthews

School: Cancer & Imaging Sciences

Interests: Image reconstruction, processing and kinetic modelling of PET data.

Keywords: Imaging; Modelling

Dr. Alex May

School: Community Based Medicine

Interests: Public Health; Deprivation; Health Inequalities

Keywords: Medical informatics

Dr. Siobhan McAndrew

School: Social Sciences

Interests: Cultural informetrics, complexity

Dr. Gordon McFiggans

School: Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences

Interests: Atmospheric modelling, particularly gas-aerosol interaction, aerosol-cloud interaction, multiphase processes and impacts on local and regional scale.

Keywords: Modelling

Dr. Alan Mckane

School: Physics & Astronomy

Prof. John Mclaughlin

School: Medicine

Interests: Salford health research, bioinformatics

Keywords: Bioinformatics; Medical informatics

Miss. Katy Middlebrough

School: Social Science (NCeSS)

Keywords: e-Social Science

Dr. Max Migliorato

School: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Interests: Parallel computing

Dr. . Andreas Milidonis

School: Manchester Business School

Interests: I have a financial computing model that needs considerable computing power to run. This involves several optimization procedures and forecasting of default probabilities.

Keywords: Business and marketing; Modelling ; Statistics

Prof. Mo Missous

School: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Interests: Semiconductor device simulation and modelling

Dr. Neil Mitchell

School: Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences

Interests: I use seabed-imaging sonars (multibeam echo-sounders and sidescanning sonars) to map the morphology of the seabed. The work involves mapping, characterisation of structures and some forward modelling of structures. This is related to the Basins Group efforts in studying 3D seismic datasets. Further information on my research is available from: http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/neil.mitchell/default.htm

Keywords: Modelling

Ms. Sharon Morgan

School: Environment and Development

Interests: gender and ICT, development informatics, ICT human resource capacity development

Dr. Dermot Morris

School: Faculty of Life Sciences

Interests: Functional genomics in farm animal species.

Keywords: Bioinformatics

Dr. Tim Morris

School: Computer Science

Interests: Computer Vision Assistive Technology

Keywords: Assistive Technology; Imaging

Dr. Gary Motteram

School: Education

Interests: e-learning; computer assisted language learning

Dr. Georgina Moulton

School: Medicine

Interests: Continued Professional Development in Bio/Health Informatics

Keywords: Bioinformatics; Medical informatics

Dr. Paul Mummery

School: Materials

Interests: Computational modelling;

Keywords: Computational Science; Modelling

Dr. Goran Nenadic

School: Computer Science

Interests: text mininig, text analytics, integrative data/text mining, sentiment analysis from text, bio-text mining

Keywords: Text Mining

Dr. John New

School: Community Based Medicine

Interests: Diabetes eLabs Epidemiology Clinical care facilitated by IT

Keywords: Medical informatics

Prof. Mike Newman

School: Manchester Business School

Interests: Information Systems Development (ISD) ERP systems Organisational Change IS Success and Failure Escalation Theory Socio-technical systems

Keywords: Information Management

Dr. Brian Nicholson

School: Manchester Business School

Interests: outsourcing offshore outsourcing software industry development

Keywords: Business and marketing

Dr. John Oakley

School: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Interests: Image Enhancement Computer vision Vision science

Keywords: Imaging

Simon Oliver

School: Faculty of Life Sciences

Interests: I am interested in provision of the underpinning IT and how this can be leveraged to advance informatics within the Faculty.

Dr. Dong Pang

School: Medicine

Interests: 1) epidemiology in cancer and other chronic diseases 2) methodology in epidemiology 3) e-research/health

Keywords: e-Health; e-Research

Prof. Geoff Parker

School: Cancer & Imaging Sciences

Interests: Development of research into the Imaging of clinical populations via PACS and the links thereof into gene & tissue banks.

Keywords: Cancer; Computational Science; Data archiving; Data management; Decision support; e-Health; e-science; Healthcare; High Performance Computing; Human computer interaction ; Imaging; Information Management; Machine learning; Medical informatics; Modelling ; Neuroscience; Parallel Computing; Signal processing

Prof. Stephen Payne

School: Manchester Business School

Interests: Human-Computer Interaction; Cognitive Systems

Keywords: Cognitive Systems; Human computer interaction

Dr. Joanne Pennock

School: Translational Medicine

Interests: QTL mapping Mouse genetics Gene polymorphisms (use / manipulation of public databases) Mouse / human homology mapping

Keywords: Bioinformatics

Ms. Carol Pettit

School: Chemical Engineering & Analytical Science

Interests: Sustainability assessment Environmental modelling

Prof. Simon Pimblott

School: Chemistry

Interests: Stochastic simulation of radiation induced processes, from the radiation track structure throught to the chemical creation of observable effects

Keywords: Cancer; Imaging; Modelling ; Parallel Computing; Simulation; Statistics

Dr.. Robin Pinning

School: Research Computing Services

Interests: I work with ESNW and RCS to provide grid technologies for accessing research computing resources on campus.

Keywords: High Performance Computing

Prof. Ser-Huang Poon

School: Manchester Business School

Interests: Quantitative Finance

Keywords: Business and marketing

Prof. Paul Popelier

School: Chemistry

Interests: We are active in computational chemistry with interest in \\\"force field design\\\". This is the creation of more reliable potentials to make molecular simulations more accurate. We use machine learning techniques to achieve aspects of this goal. Given the comput. cost of this force field parallel computing is pivotal. I am interested in moving into complexity as well, in connection with the self-assembly of molecules in solutions.

Meik Poschen

School: Social Science (NCeSS)

Interests: NCeSS, e-Social Science, e-science, e-research, evaluation, user-centered design, qualitative research, software engineering methods, VRE, VO, ICT uptake/adoption, data management

Keywords: Data management; e-Research; e-science; e-Social Science

Dr. Anita Prinzie

School: Manchester Business School

Interests: I am in the field of analytical CRM or aCRM. We both apply data mining and machine learning methods. Given huge data bases coming from industry partners, computational efficient algorithms and parallelisation are a necessity.

Keywords: Decision support; Machine learning; Parallel Computing

Prof. Rob Procter

School: Social Science (NCeSS)

Interests: e-Research Collaboration Computer-supported cooperative work e-Infrastructure System design and development methodologies Socio-technical studies

Keywords: e-Research; e-Social Science

Dr. Vasudevan Ramesh

School: Chemistry

Interests: I have research and teaching interests in Chemistry (spectroscopy and drug discovery) and Biology (RNA structure) related informatics.

Keywords: Spectrometry

Prof. Allan Ramsay

School: Computer Science

Interests: Provision of improved human-computer interfaces via speech and language Access to complex information services via natural language queries

Dr. Alistair Revell

School: Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering

Interests: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)

Keywords: Computational Fluid Dynamics

Prof. Bernard Richards

School: Computer Science

Interests: Medical Informatics

Mr. Graham Riley

School: Computer Science

Interests: Software infrastructure to support flexible computer-based simulations Software infrastucture to support efficient coupled modelling on HPC facilites high performance computing

Dr. David Robertson

School: Faculty of Life Sciences

Interests: Computational Biology and Bioinformatics

Dr. Anne Rogers

School: Community Based Medicine

Keywords: Healthcare

Dr. Benedict Rogers

School: Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering

Interests: Numerical modelling of coastal and shallow water processes

Prof. Martin Roland

School: Community Based Medicine

Interests: I am Head of the School of Community Based Medicine (which includes Bioinformatics. My attendance depends on the timing of the meeting. Could you let me know, with the agenda if possible

Mr. Geoff Rubner

School: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Interests: Comms

Dr. Pedro Sampaio

School: Manchester Business School

Interests: Requirements Engineering Customer Relationship Management Service-Oriented Computing Data Quality Service-Oriented Design

Dr. Edgar Sanchez Galicia

School: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Interests: Finite Element Modelling Networking Problem solving Algorithms design

Prof. Uli Sattler

School: Computer Science

Dr. Andrea Schalk

School: Computer Science

Interests: Mathematical foundations of computer science; mathematical models of logics and programs.

Dr. Jean-marc Schwartz

School: Faculty of Life Sciences

Interests: Systems biology, biological modelling

Dr. Laurence Seabra

School: Faculty of Life sciences

Interests: Human disease molecular profiling

Keywords: Modelling

Dr. Bill Sellers

School: Faculty of Life Sciences

Interests: Musculoskeleltal simulation using genetic algorithms to generate control signals for muscle activation. Also 3D imaging, mechanical simulation, finite element analysis.

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Distributed Computing; High Performance Computing; Modelling ; Parallel Computing; Robotics; Simulation

Dr. Jonathan Shapiro

School: Computer Science

Interests: Machine learning, heuristic optimization, computational modeling.

Keywords: Machine learning; Modelling

Dr. Kieran Sharkey

School: Chemical Engineering & Analytical Science

Interests: condor, optimisation, systems biology, epidemiology

Dr. Michael Sherratt

School: Medicine

Interests: Analysis of both the amino acid composition and primary sequences of proteins to identify physical characteristics which: 1. Affect protein interactions with surfaces, for biomaterials / tissue engineering applications. 2. Affect the susceptibility of proteins to degradation by physical mechanisms such as oxidation and UV exposure.

Keywords: Bioinformatics

Prof. David Silvester

School: Mathematics

Interests: Numerical Analysis, Scientific Computing

Keywords: Assistive Technology

Dr. Claire Smith

School: Environment and Development

Interests: Spatial analysis of geographic data using GIS, decision support information systems, mesoscale climate modelling

Keywords: Decision support; Information Management; Modelling ; Statistics

Mr. Alisdair Smithies

School: Medicine

Interests: Technology-enhanced workplace learning - research and development of tools to support learning, teaching and curriculum development for the HE sector.

Dr. Bob Snowdon

School: Computer Science

Interests: Flexible/evolutionary software architecture, tools and methods. Holistic systems. Viable systems/cybernetics/complexity. Process/organisational ICT support. Process/organisational modelling. Scenarios/decision/strategy support.

Robert Stevens

School: Computer Science

Interests: ontology; data integration; knowledge management; e-Science

Dr. John Stevenson

School: Earth Atmospheric and Environental Sciences

Interests: I am working with spatially-registered digital data e.g. aerial and satellite photos, LiDAR (high resolution digital elevation models), infra-red sensors, mainly on volcanic rocks. Much of the software that I use is also used in the field of Geographic Information Systems. This is a growing field in the geosciences as more and more data are registered to specific locations and the possibilities for spatial analysis grow.

Ms. Eleri Strittmatter

School: John Rylands Library

Interests: social Networks, performance measurement, Yniversity Libraries, Knowledge management, Text Analysis

Keywords: Knowlege Management

Mr. Bernard Strutt

School: Computer Science

Interests: External Affairs Manager - responsibility for managing relationship with external stakeholderes on behalf of CS.

Prof. Alistair Sutcliffe

School: Manchester Business School

Interests: Human Computer Interaction CSCW collaborative systems E-science tool development Health Informatics software development Requirements and Software Engineering

Keywords: e-science; Human computer interaction ; Medical informatics

Dr. Adrian Sutton

School: Medical School

Prof. Chris Taylor

School: Computer Science/Cancer & Imaging Sciences

Interests: Medical image analysis Health informatics Cognitive systems

Keywords: Biohealth informatics; Cancer; Cognitive Systems; Imaging

Dr. Babis Theodoulidis

School: Manchester Business School

Interests: Information Systems

Keywords: Information Management

Ms. Sarah Thew

School: Manchester Business School

Keywords: Biohealth informatics; Bioinformatics; Cancer; Data management; e-Health; e-Research; e-science; e-Social Science; Genomics; Healthcare; Human computer interaction ; Imaging; Information Management; Medical informatics; Ontologies; Semantic web; Software engineering; Text Mining; Usability

Dr. Marta Ugarte

School: Medicine

Interests: Computer programme to measure visual distortion.

Dr. Richard Unwin

School: Cancer & Imaging Sciences

Interests: Systems Biology Proteomics Mass Spectrometry

Dr. Mat Upton

School: Medicine, Translational Medicine

Interests: Bacterial identification Bacterial phylogenetics Bacterial Genomics Bacterial transcriptomics

Dr. Juan Uribe

School: Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering

Interests: Computational Fluid Dynamics, computer modelling.

Keywords: Computational Fluid Dynamics; Modelling

Dr. Mark Van harmelen

School: Computer Science

Interests: social software, web 2.0, learning, pedagogy, computer architecture

Prof. Geraint Vaughan

School: Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences

Interests: Computational modelling of the atmosphere

Colin Venters

School: Manchester Business School

Interests: Content-based image retrieval Requirements engineering Human-computer interaction e-Science Visualization Multimedia information retrieval

Keywords: e-science; Human computer interaction ; Multimedia

Dr. Gregory Vilensky

School: Mathematics

Interests: Embedded systems, real-time operating systems, robotics, systemsC, distributed computing, networks, security, applied analysis, scientific computing, e-commerce.

Keywords: Distributed Computing; e-commerce; Robotics

Dr. Gregory Vilensky

School: Mathematics

Interests: scientific computing, applied analysis, industrial mathematics, embedded systems, real-time os, object-oriented design, sistems-on-chip, distributed computing, Java technology, NET, XML, networks, software engineering, security

Keywords: Distributed Computing; Networking; Software engineering

Ms. Heather Vincent

School: Faculty of Life Sciences

Interests: online teaching

Keywords: Bioinformatics

Prof. Nigel Vincent

School: Languages, Linguistics and Cultures

Interests: frequency, language change

Prof. Niels Walet

School: Physics and Astronomy

Interests: An interest in HPC and simulation techniques in physics.

Keywords: Computational Science; High Performance Computing; Parallel Computing; Simulation

Dr. Michele Warren

School: Earth, Atmospheric & Environmental Sciences

Interests: Computational modelling of mineral surfaces at the atomic and electronic scale; interests and desire to learn about data management and e-science, especially for automating calculations.

Dr. Jim Warwicker

School: Faculty of Life Sciences

Interests: Computational Biology; Bioinformatics; Structural Biology

Dr. Jim Warwicker

School: Faculty of Life Sciences

Interests: Computational Biology; Bioinformatics; Structural Biology

Prof. John Waterton

School: Cancer & Imaging Science

Interests: IMAGING BIOMARKERS MRI

Keywords: Imaging

Prof. Ian Watson

School: Computer Science

Interests: Novel Programming Approaches

Dr. Catharine West

School: Cancer & Imaging Sciences

Interests: I would like to place histology figures on a website that could be accessed across the university and elsewhere in the UK. Other research involves clinical databases, MR images, microarray data.

Keywords: Cancer

Prof. Hans Westerhoff

School: Chemical Engineering & Analytical Science

Interests: Systems Biology Mathematical Biology Biochemistry Bioinformatics

Dr. Chris Westrup

School: Manchester Business School

Interests: Development; changing organisation of digitally enabled work.

Dr. Andrew Whitworth

School: Education

Interests: I work partly on organisational issues raised by e-learning, particularly with reference to higher education institutions. More generally I work on critical theory, the study of organisational theory, and how all these are affected by technology and the information society.

Dr. Mary mcgee Wood

School: Computer Science

Interests: Human-computer collaborative software design Natural language engineering Software and web accessibility

Prof. Jian-Bo Yang

School: Manchester Busienss School

Interests: decision modelling, knowledge based systems, decision support systems

Keywords: Decision support

Dr. Hujun Yin

School: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Interests: Neural Computing Computational Neuroscience Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition Signal and Image Processing Data Mining and Retrieval

Dr. Xue-Feng Yuan

School: Chemical Engineering & Analytical Science

Interests: Multiple scale modelling of complex fluid flows and development of a fully integrated database for studying biofluids and biomaterials.

Keywords: Computational Fluid Dynamics; Modelling

Dr. Xiao-jun Zeng

School: Computer Science

Interests: My research interests related to Informatics includs Machine Learning and Data Mining Intelligent Decision Technologies with applications in business and marketing data analysis, modelling, forecasting and decision making

Dr. Henggui Zhang

School: Physics & Astronomy

Interests: Bio-modelling Computational Biology and Medicine, Integrative Biology

Keywords: Modelling

Dr. Liping Zhao

School: Computer Science

Interests: My research is in a broad area of software engineering. I am particularly interested in identifying fundamental patterns in software development problems and solutions, and in using such patterns to support software development and evolution. I believe my research is multidisciplinary, as it draws knowledge and concepts from both scientific and business domain.

Dr. Oscar de Bruijn

School: Manchester Business School

Interests: Information Visualisation, Graphical Decision Support, Interactive Analytics, Collaborative Visualisation, Community Informatics

Keywords: Decision support; e-commerce; e-Health; e-science; Human computer interaction ; Ontologies; Usability

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Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Assistive Technology; Biohealth informatics; Bioinformatics; Cancer; Cognitive Systems; Community media; Complexity; Computational Science; Confidentiality; Cryptography; Decision support; Digitization; Distributed Computing; eGovernment; e-Research; e-Social Science; Healthcare; Medical informatics; Modelling ; Multimedia; Networking; Parallel Computing; Robotics; Services; Simulation; Spectrometry; Text Mining; Usability