Management team

The management team will be responsible for the overall running of the Centre, overseeing all aspects of the programme delivery and maintaining relationships with the University, the participating institutes, our external partners and UKRI.

The structure of the team consists of a Director, a Deputy Director, and an Executive Board, chosen for their extensive experience in training and their interdisciplinary profile. Collectively they provide expertise that covers each strand of research training that students will experience. 

 
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Diego Oyarzún (CDT Director, School of Informatics & School of Biological Sciences) is Reader in Computational Biology. He leads a team focussed on biomolecular systems for future therapies and the industrial biotechnology sector. Applications of their technologies include engineering biology and gene circuit design using techniques from machine learning, dynamical systems and control theory. Diego is Programme Director of the MRC Cross-Disciplinary Fellowship Programme at the Institute for Genetics and Cancer, and co-founder of the Edinburgh Science for Sustainability Hub. He has had roles with influential multi-stakeholder bodies (World Economic Forum, G20, OECD, Alan Turing Institute) and is currently a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology.
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Michael Gutmann (Informatics) is a Senior Lecturer in Machine Learning. He and has extensive international experience in developing methods for data analysis in biomedical applications. He served as an area chair for the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics and coordinates the professional development activities for postdoctoral research associates at the School of Informatics.
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Luciana D'Adderio is Chancellor’s Fellow in Data Science/Data Driven Innovation at the University of Edinburgh’s Usher Institute. Her work currently centers on Healthcare and Medical AI based technologies (e.g. expert and decision support systems for prediction or diagnosis). Luciana has worked over the years in close collaborations with a range of leading industrial companies, including most recently with GE Life Sciences. She welcomes prospective PhD candidates who have an interest in studying and understanding AI technologies in the context of real world practice, practitioners, and practices.
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Riccardo Marioni is a Professor of Molecular Epidemiology of Ageing and Group Leader in the Centre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine (CGEM, IGC). His group are interested in the integration of multi-omics data (genetics, epigenetics, and proteomics) and electronic health records to improve risk prediction and our understanding of the biology that underlies cognitive ageing and dementia. Their work is at the intersection of biostatistics, data science, epidemiology, and neuroscience.
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Miguel O. Bernabeu (Usher Institute) is a Professor of Computational Medicine and Deputy Director of the Bayes Centre is specialised in microvascular biomechanics and mechanobiology.
Ndali Liita Cairney

Ndali Liita Cairney is an academic entrepreneur and entrepreneurship trainer in the School of Informatics. She researches global health initiatives, their financial processes & management, and financial sustainability mechanisms, with a focus on Africa. She has been the course organiser and primary lecturer for the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Project (EIP).

In 2012, Ndali invented a reusable menstrual hygiene device (KOREE®™), and started Kalitasha Limited. In 2015, she was awarded a Royal Society of Edinburgh and Scottish Enterprise Fellowship, with Edinburgh Innovations as her host institution. She served as a Trustee on the HIV Scotland Board (2020 - 2021); and as a Trustee on the Board of Ombetja Yehinga Organisation Scotland –a Namibian charity that uses theatre and dance to create social awareness around issues such as child marriage and HIV/AIDS.

Isabelle Hanlon
Isabelle Hanlon is CDT Coordinator responsible for all aspects of administration and operational development of the CDT programme.
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Ken Scott is CDT Business Development Manager responsible for supporting and growing the relationships with external industrial partners.
 Sophie Ramette is  the Graduate School Manager in the School of Informatics.
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Neil Heatley is Head of Student Services in the School of Informatics.
  

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