I am currently a Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham working on a BBSRC project, Agent-based Integrative Modelling of Bacterial Populations. The aim of this project is to explore the feasibility of using distributed Grid-based simulation techniques for studying complex agent-based models of cell populations. The project will investigate the computational efficiency of biological simulations built using HLA-compliant simulators instantiated and linked using Grid services and, more generally, assess the suitability of the HLA framework for biological modelling. This is a collaborative project with the Centre for Mathematical Medicine at the University of Nottingham.

I completed my PhD Adaptive Optimistic Simulation of Multi-Agent Systems at Nottingham University as part of pdes-mas a large EPSRC project with Birmingham University. I am a member of the Intelligent Agents Group here at Nottingham. I graduated from Edinburgh University in July of 2001 with a joint honours Computer Science/Artificial Intelligence degree.