Professor of Biomedical Engineering, School of Computing and Mathematics,  University of Ulster, Island

Chris received a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic Systems and DPhil in Biomedical Engineering both from the University of Ulster in 1995 and 1998 respectively.  He began work at the University of Ulster in 1998 as a Research Fellow in the Northern Ireland BioEngineering Centre.  From there he moved to a lecturing position in the School of Computing and Mathematics in 2000,  to Senior Lecturer in Computer Science in 2003 to Reader in 2006 and to Professor of Biomedical Engineering in October 2008. His research within biomedical engineering addresses the themes of the development and evaluation of Technologies to support ambient assisted living.  He has published extensively in these areas with the work spanning theoretical,  clinical and biomedical engineering domains. He has been a grant holder of Research Projects funded by national (EPSRC,  ESRC,  MRC,  DEL and HPSSNI),  European (European Union IST (FP5,  FP6 and FP7),  InterRegIIIa,  InterRegIVb) and International (Alzheimer’s Association) funding bodies.  Amongst these projects he was the Scientific co-ordinator of the European Union MEDICATE consortium,  Technical co-ordinator of the European Union CogKnow consortium and Technical co-ordinator of the ESRC New Dynamics of Aging Well Consortium. At present he is Group Leader of the Smart Environments Research Group which was established in 2009.  This team is now in excess of 35 people including academic,  externally funded research staff and PhD students. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics and is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Biomedical Engineering and Technology,  the IEEE Engineering Medicine and Biology Conference,  Health Information Systems Track and the International Journal of Social Network Mining. Within both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching his research has led to the development of new modules in the domain of Emerging Healthcare Technologies.  In addition,  he has contributed significantly to course development of the new BSc Computing with Healthcare degree and the Post Graduate Certificate in Health Informatics. He currently holds the position of Guest Professor in Pervasive and Mobile Computing at Lulea Technical University and International Scholar at Kyung Hee University in South Korea.