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.

Ian Simpson

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CDT Director

Professor of Biomedical Informatics, School of Informatics
Contact details

Email: director.ai4bicdt@ed.ac.uk

Vicky Young

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CDT Business Development Executive

Contact details

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

Andrea Weisse

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CDT Co-Director & Research Strategy Lead

Lecturer, School of Informatics & School of Biological Sciences
Contact details

Email: Andrea.Weisse@ed.ac.uk 

Ekaterina Churkina

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CDT Manager

Contact details

Email: ekaterina.churkina@ed.ac.uk

Eleonora D'Arnese

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CDT Co-Director & Research Development Lead

Lecturer in Biomedical Artificial Intelligence, School of Informatics
Contact details

Email: eleonora.darnese@ed.ac.uk

Nina Kudryashova

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CDT Co-Director & Research Culture Lead

Royal Society University Research Fellow, School of Informatics & Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation
Contact details

Email: nkudryas@ed.ac.uk