Chris has undergraduate degrees in physics and electronics and also in biology and geology, a master’s degree in computer science and communications engineering and a doctorate in artificial intelligence. He was a research and development scientist with Hughes Aircraft Company for six years before becoming an academic. He held positions as a senior lecturer and was director of research at the Robert Gordon University School of Engineering in Aberdeen for twenty years, and now teaches at the University of the Highlands and Islands. He is the author of around seventy peer-reviewed papers and many other general interest articles.

Ken has a first-class honours degree in electrical and electronic engineering and a master’s degree by research in analogue electronics from Aberdeen University. After his studies he was appointed to a medical physicist position in Edinburgh, working on medical instrumentation, before entering industry to join a small team which researched and developed a novel three-dimensional medical ultrasound scanner. He then embarked on an academic career at the Robert Gordon University where, as a senior member of staff he was ultimately the course leader for all the electrical degree disciplines. With consultancy work in a range of fields he has designed analogue signal acquisition systems for a broad range of signal variables. Latterly he has been working for a small engineering consultancy on the analysis and interpretation of signals emanating from the condition monitoring of heavy rotating electrical machines.

Nic has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, a master’s degree in computer science and communications engineering and a doctorate in artificial intelligence. For more than fifteen years he has been an academic and course-leader at the Robert Gordon University. He is also an entrepreneur and is a director of several independent companies.

Matthew has a first-class honours degree in mechanical and energy engineering and a master’s degree in advanced mechanical and aerospace engineering. He currently works in industry on the design of jet engines for aviation.

Claire holds a first-class undergraduate degree in computer science and another in biochemistry, she has a master’s degree in computer science and a PhD in the applications of computational molecular biology to artificial intelligence. Claire is a senior software consultant in industry and leads a team of software developers for an information technology and educational company.