Profile
Biography
Following a BSc in Computer Science from the Fachhochschule Augsburg, Germany in 1988, I received a Fulbright Scholarship for the USA, where I then obtained an MSc in Computer Science from the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1991. I received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh in 1996. I became a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University in 1995 and a Senior Lecturer in 2004. Since 2001 I am also seconded part-time to the MRC Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh as a Biomedical Informatics Scientist.
My research initially focused on distributed concurrency control algorithms, but following the completion of my PhD increasingly moved into Biomedical Informatics. At Heriot-Watt University I founded the Biomedical Informatics Systems Engineering Lab (BISEL) which I am now heading.