The DataMIX Team

Dr Gordon Barr

Gordon Barr is a researcher in the Chemistry Department at the University of Glasgow, where he specialises in the development of methods and software that applies cluster analysis and other statistics to problems in crystallography and chemistry.

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Dr Elizabeth Blackburn

Elizabeth Blackburn is a Lecturer in Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Birmingham. She has a degree from Cambridge University and a PhD from the Université Joseph-Fourier, Grenoble, France.  In 2006, Elizabeth received the Best Young Scientist of the Year Award from the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. 

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Dr Nick Collins

Nick Collins is a composer, digital musician, and lecturer in computer music at the University of Sussex. He is also first editor of the Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music and a co-editor of The SuperCollider Book; SuperCollider is a powerful programming language for realtime audio and music.
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Dr Hua Dong

Hua Dong received her PhD degree from University of Cambridge and her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Tongji University, China. Her research has been focused on making products and systems accessible to the widest possible population through understanding user capabilities, improving design processes, developing better communications and understanding industry perspectives. 

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Dr Melissa Grant

After completing her PhD, Melissa Grant held a postdoctoral position at the University of Birmingham School of Dentistry where she lead a project, sponsored by Unilever, to find novel chemicals for improving oral health. She has also become involved in teaching in the school and was a runner-up in the intra-university Big Idea’s Competition.

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Dr Paul Shepherd

Paul Shepherd is a Research Fellow in the Architecture & Civil Engineering Department at the University of Bath. He previously worked as an analyst with the engineering company, Buro Happold, and on a wide variety of projects, including the Emirates Stadium for Arsenal FC in London and the new Irish National Stadium at Lansdowne Road, Dublin.
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Dr Paul Piwek

Paul Piwek is a lecturer at the Open University's Centre for Research in Computing. His main research interest is in automated information presentation. He is collaborating with colleagues at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo on a system that takes text and turns it into a dialogue between computer-animated characters.
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