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. Ian Simpson CDT DirectorProfessor of Biomedical Informatics, School of InformaticsContact detailsEmail: director.ai4bicdt@ed.ac.uk Web: Biomedical Informatics GroupSocial: LinkedIn Vicky Young CDT Business Development ExecutiveContact detailsEmail: Vicky.Young@ei.ed.ac.uk Andrea Weisse CDT Co-Director & Research Strategy LeadLecturer, School of Informatics & School of Biological Sciences Contact detailsEmail: Andrea.Weisse@ed.ac.uk Ekaterina Churkina CDT ManagerContact detailsEmail: ekaterina.churkina@ed.ac.uk Eleonora D'Arnese CDT Co-Director & Research Development LeadLecturer in Biomedical Artificial Intelligence, School of Informatics Contact detailsEmail: eleonora.darnese@ed.ac.uk Nina Kudryashova CDT Co-Director & Research Culture LeadRoyal Society University Research Fellow, School of Informatics & Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation Contact detailsEmail: nkudryas@ed.ac.uk This article was published on Thursday 27 August 2026