Chair of EEECS Sustainability Team and Fellow of the Centre for Sustainability Equality and Climate Action (SECA), previously Director of the Centre for Education and Society at EEECS (CES). I am interested in the long-term impact of technology (including AI) on society and the environment, and, in particular, on public-good first approaches to its governance. Join me! I am willing to supervise PhD research in citizens-focused and public-good aligned AI Governance and Design; these are fully funded PhD opportunities - more info & how to apply.

With expertise in both software engineering (SE) and human computer interaction (HCI), I adopt agile and participatory methods to software systems design, and I investigate the role of human values in computing and of digital technology in environmental and social change. Experienced research lead of large interdisciplinary projects within and outside academia, including EPSRC-funded Catalyst and Clasp, focusing respectively on digital action for social change and personalised health IoT. Marshall McLuhan Senior Fellow in digital sustainability at the DCI, University of Toronto, Canada (2017-2019). Principal Investigator of EPSRC-funded project Values-First SE and Co-investigator on Ensemble (LWEC).

Before joining academia, I worked as an Internet Technology Officer at the European EEIG ERNACT, managing e-government projects focused on the social and economic development of EU crossborder regions through digital innovation. I joined QUB in 2021 from the School of Computing and Communications (SCC), Lancaster University, UK.

EDUCATION

- AI Ethics, Regulation, and Compliance, Oxford Saïd Business School.
- PhD in  On-line Intelligent Systems, Computing Dept. UCD, Dublin, Ireland.
- MSc in Multimedia Systems, Engineering Dept., Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
- BA/MA in Philosophy and Social Psychology, Universita' Cattolica, Milan, Italy.

CAREER DETAILS

- 2021, Senior Lecturer, EEECS, Queen's University Belfast, UK
- 2016, Lecturer, SCC, Lancaster University, UK
- 2014, Research Fellow, SCC, Lancaster University, UK
- 2009, Snr Research Associate, SCC, Lancaster University, UK

CSC3032-SEFYP - Software Engineering Final Year Projects - 2021-2025.

CSC2054-UXD - User Experience Design - 2025-present