CDT Delivery Team

The management group will work closely with internationally leading domain experts and external partners from the public and private sector to deliver the vision of the CDT.

The team works to ensure that our students are well supported and that our ethos of a positive research cultures is pro-actively pursued.

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Ian Simpson

CDT Director

Professor of Biomedical Informatics, School of Informatics

Contact details

Email: director.ai4bicdt@ed.ac.uk

Web: Biomedical Informatics Group

Social: LinkedIn

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Ekaterina Churkina

CDT Manager

Contact details

Email: ekaterina.churkina@ed.ac.uk

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Vicky Young

CDT Business Development Executive

Contact details

Email: Vicky.Young@ei.ed.ac.uk

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Eleonora D'Arnese

CDT Researcher Development Lead

Lecturer in Biomedical Artificial Intelligence, School of Informatics

Contact details

Email: eleonora.darnese@ed.ac.uk

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Andrea Weisse

CDT Research Strategy Lead

Chancellor's Fellow, School of Informatics & School of Biological Sciences

Contact details

Email: Andrea.Weisse@ed.ac.uk 

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Nina Kudryashova

CDT Research Culture Co-Lead

Royal Society University Research Fellow, School of Informatics

Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation

Contact details

Email: nkudryas@ed.ac.uk

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Lola Springbett

CDT Administrator

Contact details

Email: lola.springbett@ed.ac.uk