- Ursula Martin
Ursula Martin (born 1953) is a British
computer scientist . She is Vice-Principal of Science and Engineering atQueen Mary, University of London and a Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science there.Ursula Martin gained an MA from the
University of Cambridge and a PhD from theUniversity of Warwick , both inmathematics . She has held academic posts atUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (U.S.), theUniversity of Manchester (UK ),Royal Holloway, University of London She has made sabbatical visits toMIT andSRI International (Menlo Park ).From 1992 to 2002, she was Professor of Computer Science at the
University of St Andrews inScotland . She was the first female professor at the University since its foundation in 1411.From 2003 to 2005, Ursula Martin was seconded to the
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory part-time as Director of theWomen@CL project to lead local, national and international initiatives for women in computing, supported byMicrosoft Research and Intel Cambridge Research. She was a Fellow ofNewnham College, Cambridge .She is Advisory Editor for the "
Annals of Pure and Applied Logic " journal (published byElsevier ) and on the editorial boards for "The Journal of Computation and Mathematics " (London Mathematical Society ) and "Formal Aspects of Computing " (Springer-Verlag ).Throughout Ursula Martin's career, she has been involved in many activities aimed at encouraging women in the fields of
computing and mathematics. Her research interests have been in the area oftheoretical computer science andformal methods .External links
* [http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/~uhmm/ QMUL home page]
* [http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/staff/publist.php?d=uhmm&type=academic Publications]
* [http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/women/ Women@CL website]
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