I am a computer scientist working in both academic and industrial research and development, based in Edinburgh. I am a Human Computer Interaction specialist, with my main focus on biomedical informatics.

As a postgraduate student I am a member of BISEL, the Biomedical Informatics Systems Engineering Laboratory, in the Department of Computer Sciences, School of Mathematics and Computer Sciences (MACS). Details of the lab and our research are on the Research page.

I originally trained in Medicine, but after doing research for a few years, I changed track in 1997 and did an MSc.in HCI at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. Over the last 10 years I have worked as a Lecturer and Research Associate at Heriot-Watt, and am currently an examiner for the British Computer Society Professional exams in Interactive System Design.

I work with many people including:
Dr. Albert Burger at Heriot-Watt University;
Prof. Patrik O'Brian Holt and Dr. John McCall at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen;
Dr. Mary Porteous, Dr. Rory Mitchell, Dr. David FitzPatrick and others at the Western General Hospital, University of Edinburgh and MRC;
Andrew Weddle.