Richard McClatchey

Prof. McClatchey has been research active for the past 30 years and has led many projects funded by industry and by the EC in the areas of large-scale distributed data and process management, in data modelling and in systems design and integration. Currently a Fellow of both the British Computer Society and the Institute of Engineering and Technology with a PhD in Physics (Sheffield, 1982) and DPhil in Computer Science (West of England, UWE 1999), McClatchey has published over 200 papers and has held the Chair of Applied Computer Science at UWE since2000. His current research interest lies in Cloud data and knowledge management and particularly in its application in medicine and smart cities. He currently leads the Centre for Complex Cooperative Systems at UWE and is active in collaborative projects at CERN, and with many international partners in numerous EC projects including Health-e-Child, SHARE, neuGRID/N4U and CRISTAL-ISE. He has chaired several international conferences, workshops and symposia during his 23 years at UWE, Bristol.