Senior Research Fellow at University of Exeter
Exeter, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Senior Research Fellow at University of Exeter
- Associate Lecturer at Open University
- Owner at Babilim Light Industries
- Education
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- Keele University
- University of St. Andrews
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- Industry
- Research
- Websites
Alasdair Allan’s Summary
Experienced researcher in the multi-disciplinary field of astronomical computing. Well established, with an international reputation in the field of e-Science. At the forefront of applying intelligent agent architecture and techniques to astrophysics research for telescope control and scheduling, and for data mining in the emerging virtual observatory. Currently leading the work on the eSTAR project at Exeter building a peer-to-peer distributed network of telescopes which, acting autonomously, will reactively schedule observations of time-critical transient events.
Alasdair Allan’s Experience
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Senior Research Fellow
University of Exeter
(Educational Institution; Research industry)
February 2007 — Present (1 year 6 months)
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Associate Lecturer
Open University
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
February 2005 — Present (3 years 6 months)
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Owner
Babilim Light Industries
(Computer Software industry)
January 2005 — Present (3 years 7 months)
Babilim Light Industries is a small Perl and Web 2.0 consulting company based in the South West of England.
Alasdair Allan’s Education
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Keele University
PhD, Astrophysics, 1995 — 1999
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University of St. Andrews
MSci, Astronomy, 1991 — 1995
Additional Information
Alasdair Allan’s Websites:
Alasdair Allan’s Groups:
Royal Astronomical Society, Institute of Physics
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Perl Mongers member -
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OSCON 08 - Open Source Convention member
