Martyn Amos

Martyn Amos is a Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Northumbria University, working in natural computation, crowd simulation, DNA computing and synthetic biology. He was born in Hexham, Northumberland in 1971, brought up in Heddon-on-the-Wall, and attended school in Ponteland. He graduated with a degree in Computer Science from Coventry University in 1993 (which included an industrial placement working on the Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom) Corporate Headquarters Office Technology System), before earning a Ph.D. in DNA computing in 1997, from the University of Warwick. He then held a Leverhulme Trust Special Research Fellowship at the University of Liverpool, before taking up permanent academic appointments at the University of Liverpool (2000–2002), the University of Exeter (2002–2006), and Manchester Metropolitan University (2006–2018). He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS), and an active contributor to the Speakers for Schools education charity.