Biography
Prof Hillston is Chair of Quantitative Modelling and former Head of School (2018–2023) in the School of Informatics. She is Dean of Research Culture and REF in the College of Science and Engineering and was seconded as Deputy Vice Principal Research 2020–2022, and in that role led development of the University of Edinburgh’s first Research Cultures Action Plan. She has extensive experience of working in EDI and she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2023 for services to computer science and women in science. Her research focuses on computational modelling of dynamic systems which has involved collaboration across a range of application domains, including systems biology