WISE Workshop, 28th March 2013

Programme

You are invited to a day of networking with academics and researchers in science and engineering at the University of Edinburgh. This is an opportunity to listen to successful women talk about their careers and how they got there. You will also meet other people working in science and engineering and brainstorm ideas around topics of interest. The day will finish with a poster session and reception where you can discuss research with other participants. If you already have a poster about your work suitable for a general audience, please bring it along.

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Speakers

Cait MacPhee

Cait is Professor of Biological Physics in the School of Physics at the University of Edinburgh. Her research concerns peptide and protein self-assembly. Understanding this process of self-assembly, which has the potential to prevent or reverse disease, or to drive the development of new materials and foodstuffs, forms the focus of her research efforts. She also has an interest in Astrobiology and origins of life. In 2006 she was awarded Science Woman of the Future and in 2011 she was elected to the Young Academy of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

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Elham Kashefi

Elham is a Reader in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. She works on models of quantum computing and their structural relations, exploring new applications, algorithms and cryptographic protocols for quantum information processing devices. She is a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy.Elham is a Reader in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. She works on models of quantum computing and their structural relations, exploring new applications, algorithms and cryptographic protocols for quantum information processing devices. She is a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Young Academy.

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Mounia Lalmas

Mounia is a visiting principal scientist at Yahoo! Labs Barcelona. Her main research topic is concerned with understanding and modelling user engagement. In particular she is working on combining techniques from web analytics and mining, information retrieval evaluation, and existing works on user engagement coming from the domains of information science, multimodal human computer interaction and cognitive psychology. The long-term goal is to develop a new genre of computational social sciences that transcend specific applications on the internet. She is also an honorary research fellow at the University of Glasgow.

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Emma Braithwaite

Emma completed her PhD in Electrical Engineering applied to medical signals in 1998. She has had a variety of roles in industry including both research, development and product management as well as wider business roles. She now heads up the Respiratory Care Business Unit for ResMed UK. ResMed are a global medical technology company who specialise in the diagnosis and therapy of breathing disorders. She has served on the council of the IET, continues to act as a technical advisor for their medical special interest group, is a chartered engineer and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.

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Jane Haley

After a PhD in Pharmacology from UCL, Jane had a number of post-doc positions in Minnesota, Stanford, UCL and the University of Edinburgh. She is now Edinburgh Neuroscience Scientific Coordinator. Her job involves running events, organising a public engagement programme, developing and maintaining a communication hub, and assisting with interdisciplinary grant applications. She won the 2012 Principal's Medal for Outstanding Service.

• Contact

  Queries and suggestions for break-out sessions should be sent to Katey Lee