Usher Institute staff
All academic, research and professional services staff from across the Usher Institute.
General enquiry?
If you are making a general enquiry to the Usher Institute, or wish to contact our senior leadership team, please refer to our contact us page.
Centre staff lists
Interested in our sub-units? View staff lists split by primary Centre/Unit affiliation:
Medical Informatics - staff list
Population Health Sciences - staff list
Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit - staff list managed on separate website
We also have staff based in our Teaching Organisation, in teams working within our Health and Social Care Data-Driven Innovation Programme, and our Core Professional Services teams (see our Contact us page)
Full Usher Institute staff list
Name (sorted in ascending order) | Role |
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Luciana D'Adderio | Chancellor's Fellow |
Shima Abdullateef | Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
Purva Abhyankar | Senior Research Fellow (FRESHAIR4Life) |
Marta Adamczyk | Assistant Trial Manager |
Imad Adamestam | Clinical Trial Statistician |
Lorraine Adamson | Clinical Trials Administrator |
Tahira Akbar | Service Manager |
Naseerah Akooji | Statistician |
Viraj Alawa | Data Manager |
Fatima Almaghrabi | Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
Lynn Anderson | Centre Administrator, Centre for Population Health Sciences | Personal Assistant to Professor David Weller |
Niall Anderson | Senior Lecturer of Medical Statistics |
Sam Andres | Research Annotator |
Stella Arakelyan | Research Fellow |
Liliana Arias Urueña | Research Fellow |
Catherine Arkwright | Trial Management Support Officer |
Ruth Armstrong | Data Manager |
Thulani Ashcroft | Teaching Fellow, UNCOVER Project Manager |
Sophie Atherton | Research Fellow |
Katie Atkins | Chancellor's Fellow & Reader |
Marek Atter | Research Fellow in Health Economics |
Karolina Bajbuz | Programme Administrator |
Dominique Balharry | Global Respiratory Health Research Manager |
Kasia Banas | Undergraduate Talent Lead and Programme Director | Co-Director of Students for Deanery of Molecular Genetic and Population Health Sciences |
Ailsa Barclay | ACRC Administrator |
Claire Battison | Trial Manager |
Linda Bauld | Bruce and John Usher Professor of Public Health | Co-Head of Centre for Population Health Sciences |
Sara Bea | Post-Doctoral Research Fellow |
Miguel O. Bernabeu | Professor of Computational Medicine |
William Berthon | Biostatistician / Epidemiologist / Health Data Scientist |
Gayle Beveridge | Trial Manager |
Emma Birley | Research Assistant (UNCOVER) |
Lottie Bishop-Hurman | Data Analyst – Data Enabled Clinical Trials |
Joanne Blair-Gray | Personal Assistant to the Director of the Usher Institute |
Brittany Blankinship | Lecturer in Data Science |
Jenny Bos | Public Engagement and Knowledge Exchange Manager |
Matt Bouamrane | Chancellor's Fellow |
Julia Boyd | Senior Trial Manager |
Kirsty Boyd | Reader in Palliative Care |
Nicola Boydell | Lecturer in Social Science and Public Health |
Amanda Bradburn | Communications and Finance Officer |
Dr David P Breen | Senior Clinical Research Fellow and Honorary Consultant Neurologist |
Corinna Bremer | Operations Coordinator |
Anny Briola | Clinical Trials Statistician |
Kate Britton | Usher Operations Manager |
Cathryn Broderick | Systematic Review Methodologist |
David Buchanan | Data Analyst / Software Developer |
Susan Buckingham | Head of Communications, Marketing and Engagement |
Erin Cadger | Data Analyst |
Jacqui Calder | Trial Assistant |
Clara Calvert | Chancellor's Fellow in Global Challenges |
Malcolm Cameron | Research Assistant |
Christine Campbell | Reader |
Dawn Campbell | Personal Assistant to Professor Tim Walsh | Administrative Secretary |
Harry Campbell | Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Public Health |
Kirsteen Campbell | Communications and Engagement Officer, UK LLC |
Arlene Casey | Research Fellow in Health Data Research |
Andrew Castle | Open Research Administrator |
Dawn Cattanach | Graphic designer |
Debbie Cavers | Research Fellow |
Bran Cervenak | Institute Facilities Manager |
Kit Chan | Chancellor's Fellow & Reader |
Sarah Chan | Reader/ Chancellor's Fellow |
Sam Chase | Programme Administrator |
Stephanie Cholbi | Assistant Trial Manager |
Amy Chong | Data Analyst |
Neil Clark | Data Analyst |
Gareth Clegg | Senior Clinical Lecturer |
Mia Closs | Research Fellow |
Claire Cochran | Trial Manager |
Jess Conway | Communications and Engagement Officer (currently on secondment to Press Office) |
Lucy Courage | Programme Administrator |
Lauren Craig | Trial Manager |
Shona Craik | Trial Management Support Officer |
Denise Cranley | Trial Manager |
Gina Cranswick | Senior Trial Team Manager |
Anna Crawford | Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Officer |
Kathrin Cresswell | Professor of Digital Innovations in Health and Care |
Matthew Cull | Interdisciplinary Research Fellow in Biomedicine, Self and Society |
Sarah Cunningham-Burley | Professor of Medical and Family Sociology / Co-Head of Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society |
Gwenetta Curry | Reader |
Iwona Czerwinska | Programme Coordinator |
Kenton D'Mellow | Data Management & Programming Team Lead |
Luke Daines | Clinical Research Fellow |
Julie Davidson | Institute Administrator |
Ellie Dawe Black | BR-UK Administrator |
Karen Dawson | Personal Assistant to Professor Andrew Morris |
Giulia De Togni | Chancellor's Fellow |
Afshan Dean | Senior Lecturer |
Lisa Derr | Senior Trial Manager - Start-up Specialist |
Lorna Dewar | Trial Manager |
Lynn Dinsmore | Trial Manager |
Rachel Dlugatch | Research Fellow (Qualitative) |
Fiona Dobbie | Senior Lecturer in Public Health |
Annemarie Docherty | Wellcome Clinical Research Career Development Fellowship |
Eddie Donaghy | Research Fellow |
Keith Douglas | Teaching Fellow |
Dr Thomas Drake | |
Andrew Duckworth | Senior Clinical Lecturer |
Stuart Dunbar | Engagement Manager |
Tim Duncan | Senior Software Developer |
Agata Dunsmore | Clinical Teacher |
Karolína Dušková | Group Administrator |
Helen Eborall | Senior Lecturer |
Morag Edwards | RESPIRE Operations Coordinator |
Sarah Elliot | Research Assistant |
Justin Engelmann | Machine Learning Scientist in Fetal Medicine Data Science |
Romain Enjalbert | Research Fellow |
Hannah Ensor | Research Fellow |
Buddhi Erabadda | Research Fellow (Software Engineer / Machine Learning Scientist) |
Christine Evans | Programme Deputy Director, On Campus MPH |
Michelle Evans | Talent Lead for Health & Social Care sector of the Data Driven Innovation (DDI) programme| Director of MSc Data Science for Health and Social Care |
Shedrack Ezu | DataLoch Hub Data Analyst |
Karen Fairhurst | Professor of Student Learning in Primary Care |
Nusa Faric | Research Fellow |
David Fearon | Teaching Fellow - Master of Family Medicine (online) |
Candida Fenton | Information Specialist/Systematic Review Methodologist, Cochrane Vascular Group |
Genevie Fernandes | Research Fellow in Global Health Governance and Respiratory |
Robin Flaig | Chief Operations Officer, Generation Scotland |
Kelly Fleetwood | Statistician |
Monica Fletcher | Honorary Research Fellow |
Kitty Flynn | Communications, Marketing and Engagement Officer |
Andrea Ford | Research Fellow in Biomedicine, Self and Society: Beyond Disease |
Joana Formosinho | Interdisciplinary Research Fellow in Biomedicine, Self and Society |
Laura Forsyth | Trial Manager |
Mavis Frempong | Learning Designer |
Helen Frost | Research Fellow (ACRC) |
Neil Gallacher | Senior Lecturer |
Lidis Garbovan | Research Fellow (Citizen Panel Lead) |
Jaime Garcia Iglesias | Chancellor's Fellow |
Lesley Gardner | Personal Assistant to Professor Sarah Wild |
Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril | Interdisciplinary Research Fellow in Biomedicine, Self and Society |
Ylenia Giarratano | Research Fellow (C1) (ACAD - Researcher) |
James Gibson | Lecturer |
Annabel Giddings | Assistant Trial Manager |
Holly Gilmour | Trial Management Support Officer |
Hannah Glasser | Centre Administrator |
Pauline Golding | Teaching Fellow - MPH (online) |
Sarah Golightly | Postgraduate Research Support Officer |
Laura Gonzalez Rienda | PPI Research and Operations Assistant |
Su Goopy | PGT Research Manager |
Elvina Gountouna | Data Manager |
Liz Grant | Professor of Global Health and Development/ Director Global Health Academy / Assistant Principal Global Health / Programme Co-Director (MSc Global eHealth, Global Health Challenges, Master of Family Medicine) |
Paula Grieve | Research Finance & Business Support Manager |
David Griffith | Reader |
Bruce Guthrie | Professor of General Practice |
Nynke Halbesma | Programme Co-Director online MPH | Co-Director of Students for Deanery of Molecular Genetic and Population Health Sciences |
Gregor Hall | AIM-CISC Administrator |
Vicky Hammersley | IMP2ART Programme Manager / Research Fellow – Allergy and Respiratory Research Group |
Jeni Harden | Professor of Social Sciences in Medicine |
Maureen Harding | Administrative Secretary |
Stephanie Hardley | Teaching Fellow |
David Hardman | Research Fellow |
Ronnie Harkess | Senior Software Developer |
Ewen Harrison | Professor of Surgery and Data Science, Head of Centre for Medical Informatics |
Kathy Harrison | Dataloch Programme Lead |
Michelle Hart | Deputy Teaching Manager / Digital Education Manager |
Niamh Hart | Clinical Trials Administrator |
Ruth Hart | Research Fellow |
Louise Hartley | Programme Coordinator (ACRC) |
Sara Hatam | Data Scientist |
Louise Hatherall | Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
Raza Hayat | Trial Management Support Officer |
Emily Healy | Senior Research Administrator |
David Henderson | Quantitative Research Fellow |
Anna Heye | Trial Manager |
Susan Hinder | Research Fellow |
Dr Leonard Ho | Visiting Researcher (ACRC) |
Samuel Hoare | Teaching Fellow, Master of Public Health (online and on campus) |
Mike Holder | Academic Fellow in General Practice |
Prema Howard | Marketing and Recruitment Lead (PGT) |
Huayi Huang | Research Fellow (Qualitative) |
Colleen Hubbard | Partner Engagment and Marketing Lead - Health and Social Care Data Driven Innovation |
Daria Ihnatenko | Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement Co-ordinator (Maternity Cover) |
Karen Innes | Senior Trial Manager - start up specialist |
Sian Irvine | Trial Manager |
Julie Jacko | Chair of Health Informatics and Data Science and Interim Director, Usher Institute |
Caroline Jackson | Chancellor's Fellow / Senior Lecturer |
Tracy Jackson | Senior Research Fellow, Patient and Public Involvement Lead |
Claire Jankowska | Communications and Engagement Officer |
Malihe Javidi | Research Fellow on Computer Vision in Medicine |
Karen Jeffrey | Research Fellow |
Elli Johnston | Administrative Assistant |
John Johnston | Clinical Trials Administrator |
Catriona Keerie | Assistant Statistical Director (Commercial) |
Markéta Keller | Teaching Fellow |
Sebastien Kenmoe | Research Fellow |
Titouan Kennel | Clinical Trials Statistician |
Katherine Kentistou | MRC Research Fellow |
Professor Tim Kerby | Visiting Lecturer |
Steven Kerr | Chancellor's Fellow |
Emma Kinley | PPI Research Fellow |
Theresa Kirkpatrick | Project Coordinator |
Felicity Knights | Teaching Fellow |
Judit Kuti | Data Analyst |
Marie Larsson | Research Fellow (Qualitative) |
Julia Lawton | Professor of Health and Social Science |
Chase Ledin | Lecturer in Social Science and Medicine |
Robert Lee | Senior Statistician |
Rebecca Lees | Research Finance Administrator |
Elizabeth Lemmon | Lecturer |
Hannah Lepper | Research Fellow in Mathematical Modelling |
Sharon Levy | CPD Lead Data Driven Innovation Talent Team |
Katherine Lewis | Trial Management Support Officer |
Steff Lewis | Professor of Medical Statistics |
Ai Lim | RESPIRE Programmes and Trial Manager |
Chun Lin | Data Analyst |
Chris Linsley | Data Manager |
Rachel Locherty | Trial Manager |
Nazir Lone | Professor of of Critical Care and Epidemiology |
Rachael Lowe | Global Cleft Lip & Palate Research Programme Coordinator |
Saturnino Luz | Professor of Digital Biomarkers and Precision Medicine |
Mathew Lyons | SCREDS Clinical Lecturer in Anaesthesia |
Alix Macdonald | Trial Manager |
Margaret MacDougall | Medical Statistician and Researcher in Education |
Lisa MacInnes | Lead Research Nurse |
Rob Mackie | Communication Officer, ACRC |
Morag MacLean | Senior Trial Manager |
Catherine MacLeod | Research Fellow |
Alasdair MacLullich | Professor of Geriatric Medicine |
Julie MacMillan | Administration & HR Coordinator |
Clare MacRae | MRC Clinical Research Training Fellow |
Christina Mainka | Lecturer |
Sophie Marion de Proce | Statistics Teaching Fellow |
Viv Marsh | IMP2ART Facilition Co-ordinator: Specialist Nurse |
Laura Marshall | Events Manager |
Sancha Martin | Consortium Manager |
Bruce Mason | Research Fellow |
Kate Massie | Personal Assistant to Professor Linda Bauld |
Magdalena Mazurczak | Finance Administrator |
Sarah McCallum | MPH (Full time) Operations Coordinator |
Haruno McCartney | Research Assistant |
Lucy McCloughan | Programme Manager, Advanced Care Research Centre |
Lynne McGillivray | ECTU Business and Quality Assurance Administrator |
Paul McKeigue | Professor of Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics |
Aoife Mckenna | Research Assistant |
Stela McLachlan | Research Manager |
Franziska McManus | Teaching Assistant |
Ruth McQuillan | Co-Lead UNCOVER (Usher Network for COVID Evidence Reviews), Programme Co-Director (Master of Integrated Global Health - online), Reader |
Emilie Mcswiggan | Teaching Fellow - MPH Online; ACRC PhD Student |
Gillian Mead | Professor of Stroke and Elderly Care Medicine |
Felicity Vidya Mehendale | Senior Lecturer |
Magda Mekky | Teaching Fellow (MPH online) |
Joe Mellor | Informatician (Machine Learning Specialist) |
Stewart Mercer | Professor of Primary Care and Multimorbidity |
Ines Mesa Eguiagaray | Statistical Geneticist |
Paula Mika | Research Administrator |
Laura Miller | Finance Assistant |
Martine Miller | Research Fellow |
Nicholas Mills | British Heart Foundation Professor of Cardiology | Consultant Cardiologist | Lead for Data-Driven Innovation in Health and Social Care |
Garry Milne | Software Developer |
Lynsey Milne | Data Manager |
Julia Moon | Communications Administrator |
Andrew Morris | Professor of Medicine / Vice-Principal Data Science |
Ailsa Morrison | Finance Administrator |
Elaine Mowat | Programme Manager, Leading Digital Transformation in Health and Care for Scotland (LDTS) Programme |
Charlotte Munden | Postgraduate Administrator |
Janice Murray | ACRC Partnerships & Communications Manager |
Sarah Murray | Communications and Engagement Officer |
Matthew Murrell | Data Analyst |
Malene Nafisi | Research Finance Administrator |
Harish Nair | Professor of Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Global Health, Co-Head of Centre for Global Health |
Aileen Neilson | Senior Health Economist |
Louisa Newbigging | Marketing and Recruitment Lead (Maternity Cover) |
Matt Newlands | Programme Administrator |
Lauren Ng | SCREDS Clinical Lecturer in General Practice & Primary Care |
Yen Culley Nguyen | Internal Periodic Review Coordinator |
Kristin Nicodemus | Chancellor's Fellow / Senior Lecturer |
Angela Niven | Project Manager / Senior Research Fellow |
Erin Noble | Research Assistant |
Leon Noble | Research Assistant |
John Norrie | Professor of Medical Statistics and Trial Methodology / Director of Edinburgh Clinical Trials Unit |
Amy Nugent | Assistant Trial Manager |
Alicia Nunez-Garcia | Research Fellow |
Chloe O'Leary | Receptionist and Administration Assistant |
Derek O'Sullivan | DataLoch Developer |
Kat Oatey | Trial Manager |
David Obree | Archie Duncan Fellow in Medical Ethics and Fellow in Medical Education |
Pawel Orzechowski | Lecturer in Programming for Data Science |
Richard Osei-Yeboah | Research Fellow |
Claudia Pagliari | Senior Lecturer |
Zoe Paige | Community Marketing Lead |
Richard Parker | Senior Research Fellow |
Sarah Parkin | Finance Administrator |
Karissa Robyn Patton | Interdisciplinary Research Fellow in Biomedicine, Self and Society |
Marian Peacock | Research Fellow (Qualitative) |
Rose Penfold | Research Fellow: Wellcome |
Dan Perez Vicencio | Teaching Assistant |
Martyn Pickersgill | Professor of the Sociology of Science and Medicine |
Hilary Pinnock | Professor of Primary Care Respiratory Medicine |
Ian Piper | Data Analyst |
Riinu Pius (Ots) | Senior Data Manager |
Evgeniya Plotnikova | Lecturer in Public Health Research and Education |
Roz Pollock | Clinical Trial Statistician |
Karen Ponder | Assistant Trial Manager |
Jennifer Porteous | Data Analyst |
Rosemary Porteous | ODL Programme Administrator (Master of Public Health – online) |
Stephen Powell | Data Acquisition Manager |
Jackie Price | Professor of Molecular Epidemiology |
Regina Prigge | Medical Statistician; Lecturer in Epidemiology |
Carys Pugh | ACRC Quantitative analyst/Statistician |
Lily Quinlan | Research Administrator |
Reshma Rajagopal | GP Clinical Teacher |
Robin Ramsay | Clinical Programme Director |
David Rankin | Research Fellow |
Phillip Rayson | Assistant Trial Manager |
Mairi Redman | IHDP PA/ Administrator |
Natalia Reglinska-Matveyev | Research & Operations Manager |
Stella Rhode | Research Assistant |
Jayne Richards | Personal Assistant to Professor Bruce Guthrie and Professor Stewart Mercer |
Hannah Rickman | Assistant Trial Manager |
Roy Robertson | Professor of Addiction Medicine |
Colan Robinson | Teaching Fellow |
Amy Rodger | Research Fellow (BR-UK) |
Aryelly Rodriguez | Research Fellow |
Neneh Rowa-Dewar | Senior Lecturer | Co-Director (MPH online) | Director of Quality DMGPHS |
Ana Paula Rubio | Retinal Imaging Research Associate |
Oscar Rubio Barber | Finance Assistant |
Igor Rudan | Professor of International Health and Molecular Medicine, Co-Head of Centre for Global Health |
Brenda Saetta | Usher Institute Secretary |
Professor Rustam Al-Shahi Salman | Professor of clinical neurology |
Micol Salvetto | Research Fellow |
Matt Sanders | Technologist (C1) (PAO - IT) |
Stina Saunders | Postdoc Data Analyst |
Gillian Scott | Trial Manager |
Stephanie Scott | Project Administrator |
Bea Selby | Trial Manager |
Nayha Sethi | Senior Lecturer |
Rebecca Sewell | Programme Administrator |
(Syed) Ahmar Shah | Chancellor's Fellow | Senior Research Fellow | Director of Innovation |
Jenny Sharma | Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) Co-ordinator |
Sonia Sharma | Trial Management Support Officer |
Clare Sharp | Research Fellow (Qualitative), PaCCT |
Katie Shaw | Senior Lecturer |
Shane Sheehan | Research Fellow |
Sir Aziz Sheikh | Professor of Primary Care Research and Development |
Susan D Shenkin | Professor of Healthcare for Older People, Ageing and Health, University of Edinburgh | Honorary Consultant, NHS Lothian |
Ting Shi | Chancellor's Fellow |
Anita Shukla | HR Administrative Assistant |
Lorna Sinclair | Teaching Fellow |
Pamela Sinclair | ECTU Business Manager |
Dominika Skrocka | Project Coordinator / Senior Research Administrator (SALFS) |
Vivien Smith | Director of Professional Services, Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences |
Roshini Sooriyarachchi | Clinical Trials Statistician |
Karen Sooy | Research Development Advisor |
Sarah Spence | Teaching Fellow |
Athina Spiliopoulou | Chancellor's Fellow |
Devi Sridhar | Professor of Global Public Health |
Rachel Stanley | HR Administrative Assistant |
Theresa Ikegwuonu | Research Fellow |
Anna Orme | Consortium Manager (SPECTRUM) |
Jacqueline Stephen | Senior Statistician |
Kelly Stewart | Assistant Trial Manager |
Laura Stewart | Lecturer (Clinical Trials Online) |
Marlene Stewart | Managing Editor Cochrane Peripheral Vascular Diseases Review Group |
Sarah Stock | Professor of Maternal and Fetal Health |
Andrew Stoddart | Senior Health Economist |
Fiona Strachan | IHDP Chief Operating Officer |
Catherine Sudlow | Professor of Neurology and Clinical Epidemiology |
Yuhao Sun | Teaching Assistant / Tutor |
Julia Swallow | Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Humanities and Social Sciences |
Kieran Sweeney | Academic Fellow in General Practice |
Aneeta Sylolypavan | Research Fellow |
Linda Tait | Centre Administrator |
Agnes Tello | Senior Research Development Manager |
Evropi Theodoratou | Professor of Cancer Epidemiology and Global Health |
Lorna Thompson | Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society Administrator / Personal Assistant to Professor Devi Sridhar |
Emma Thomson | HR Adminsitrator |
Joyce Thomson | ECTU Chief Operating Officer |
Mathew Thorpe | Research Assistant |
Holly Tibble | Chancellor's Fellow |
Amy Tilbrook | Dataloch Information Governance Facilitator |
Katherina Tober | GP Clinical Teacher |
Claire Tochel | Research Fellow (SCONE) |
Tricia Tooman | ACRC Research Fellow |
Serena Tricarico | HDR UK Scotland Manager |
Thanasis Tsanas | Professor of Digital Health and Data Science / Director of Knowledge Exchange and Research Impact |
Sharon Tuck | Senior Statistician |
Elizabeth Varghese | Clinical Trials Statistician |
Christy Vaughan | Receptionist / Administrative Assistant |
Laia Ventura Garcia | UKRI Guarantee Postdoctoral Fellow |
Amanda Vettini | Research Fellow |
Tony Wackett | Data Management & Programming Architect |
Jennifer Waddell | Trial Manager |
Tracey Wagner-Rizvi | Research Fellow |
Debbie Wake | Clinical Reader in Medical Informatics and Diabetes Care & Education |
Timothy Walsh | Professor of Critical Care | Director of Innovation for NHS Lothian, and Health Innovation South East Scotland |
Haoxiang Wang | Honorary Fellow |
Emma Ward | Trial Manager |
Lin Watson | Teaching Fellow |
Alison Webb | Student Adviser |
Fiona Wee | Trial Manager |
Christopher Weir | Professor of Medical Statistics and Clinical Trials |
David Weller | James Mackenzie Professor of General Practice | Programme Co-Director (Master of Family Medicine) | Co-Head of Centre for Population Health Sciences |
Christopher White | Data Manager - Digitally Enabled Trials |
Rebecca Whitehorn | Research Administrator |
Sarah Wild | Professor of Epidemiology |
Linda Williams | Research Fellow |
Adele Willoughby | Programme Administrator |
Jim Wilson | Professor of Human Genetics |
John Wilson | Teaching Fellow |
Kevin Wing | Lecturer In Epidemiology |
Professor Rachael Wood | Consultant in Public Health Medicine, Honorary Professor of Maternal and Child Public Health |
Mark Woolhouse | Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology |
Honghan Wu | Visiting researcher |
Ingrid Young | Senior Lecturer |
Yue Zhang | Research Fellow |