I am currently a lecturer in the Decision and Cognitive Sciences Group at the Manchester Business School. From April 2007 until June 2011, I was an MRC Special Training Fellow in Bioinformatics with Simon Lovell at the University of Manchester. This position included a six months visit to David Baker's lab at the University of Washington, Seattle, in 2009. From January 2004 to September 2006, I was a PhD student in Douglas Kell's group at the Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, UK. Previously, I studied Diplominformatik at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany. From April 2003 to September 2003, I was a visiting student with Marco Dorigo at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, where I worked on my Masters thesis. From February 2001 to December 2001 I was an Honours student at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Research interests: Optimization, in particular multiobjective optimization Data-mining, in particular unsupervised and semi-supervised approaches Machine learning Computational biology, in particular computational protein structure prediction Ant-based clustering