Digital Aid: Understanding the Digital Challenges facing Humanitarian Assistance
Monday 09 Sep 2019
Time: 08:30 - 18:00
Bio
Kate is a Professor of Biological Anthropology and Engineering Mathematics, and Vice-President for Research, Innovation, and Impact at University College Dublin.
She obtained her PhD in phylogenetics from the University of Cambridge (Newnham College, 1995), and held the Graham Robertson Research Fellowship at Downing College. Until her appointment at UCD, Kate was Director of the Jean Golding Institute for Data Science and Data Intensive Research at the University of Bristol.
Kate was formerly the chair of the Institute's Research and Innovation Advisory Committee, which steered scientific direction at the Turing.
Research interests
Kate’s research explores the microstructure of living tissues and their response to changing and extreme environments; innovating methodologies for the capture, computational modelling, analysis and interpretation of data describing complex material and structural characterisation. Biological anthropological applications of these methods include forensic identification, the regulation of hard tissue growth and development, and the study of biomechanical systems in extinct species. Engineering applications include employing the ontogeny of tissue microstructure as a model of programmed transformation in 4D materials, biomimetics in engineering design, and multi-scale modelling of complex hierarchical structures and systems.
