Trinity College Dublin

Postal Address	Centre for Health Informatics Department of Computer Science 2 Dublin Ireland
Telephon	+353 1 608 1594
Fax	+353 1 677 2204
E-mail	jane.grimson@cs.tcd.ie
Web	http://www.cs.tcd.ie/Jane.Grimson

Jane Grimson - Professor Jane Grimson obtained her bachelors degree in Engineering from Trinity College Dublin and her Masters and Doctorate in Computer Science form the Universities of Toronto and Edinburgh. She joined the Department of Computer Science in Trinity College Dublin as a lecturer in 1980 where she is now an Associate Professor. She was Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Systems Sciences from 1996 to 1999. She has published over 80 papers in journals and the proceedings of international conferences, and has co-authored a textbook on Distributed Database Systems published by Addison-Wesley.

Her main research interests are in distributed information systems and health informatics. She has acted as principal investigator on several EU and national research projects. She established the Knowledge and Data Engineering Research Group in the Department of Computer Science and also, together with colleagues from the Faculty of Health Sciences, the Centre for Health Informatics in Trinity College. She is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the British Computer Society, Irish Computer Society, Institution of Engineers of Ireland, Irish Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland and a member of ACM and IEEE. She is a member of the Irish Council for Science, Technology and Innovation and chaired the Materials and Manufacturing Processes Panel of the Government's Technology Foresight Initiative. She is President of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland for 1999-2000.