Peter Andras
peter andras

Prof Peter Andras

Dean of School of Computing Engineering and the Built Environment

 0131 455 2456

  P.Andras@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Professor Peter Andras is the Dean of the Schools of Computing and Engineering & the Built Environment since August 2021.

Previously Peter was the Head of the School of Computing and Mathematics (2017 – 2021) and Professor of Computer Science and Informatics at Keele University from 2014 – 2021. Prior to this he worked at Newcastle University in the School of Computing (2002 – 2014) and the Department of Psychology (2000 – 2002).

He has a PhD in Mathematical Analysis of Artificial Neural Networks (2000), MSc in Artificial Intelligence (1996) and BSc in Computer Science (1995), all from the Babes-Bolyai University, Romania.

Peter’s research interests span a range of subjects including artificial intelligence, machine learning, complex systems, agent-based modelling, software engineering, systems theory, neuroscience, modelling and analysis of biological and social systems. He has worked on many research projects, mostly in collaboration with other researchers in computer science, psychology, chemistry, electronic engineering, mathematics, economics and other areas. His research projects have received around £2.5 million funding, his papers have been cited by over 2,400 times and his h-index is 25 according to Google Scholar.

Peter has extensive experience of working with industry, including several KTP projects and three university spin-out companies, one of which is on the London Stock Exchange since 2007 – eTherapeutics plc.

Peter is member of the Board of Governors of the International Neural Network Society (INNS), Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology, Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and member of the UK Computing Research Committee (UKCRC), IEEE Computer Society, Society for Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB), International Society for Artificial Life (ISAL) and the Society for Neuroscience (SfN).

Peter serves on the EPSRC Peer Review College, the Royal Society International Exchanges Panel and the Royal Society APEX Awards Review College. He is also regularly serving as review panel member and project assessor for EU funding agencies.

Outside academia, Peter has an interest in politics and community affairs. He served as local councillor in Newcastle upon Tyne, parish councillor in Keele and stood in general elections for the Parliament. He has experience of working with and leading community organisations and leading a not-for-profit regional development consultancy and project management organisation.

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Grant Funding Panel Member

  • EPSRC grant panel member
  • EU Horizon 2020 / Horizon Europe / FP6 / FP7 grant panel member
  • Austria FIT IT grant panel member

 

Grant Reviewer

  • Leverhulme Trust grant reviewer
  • MRC grant reviewer
  • Austria FIT IT grant reviewer
  • BBSRC grant reviewer
  • EPSRC grant reviewer
  • EU Horizon 2020 / Horizon Europe / FP6 / FP7 grant reviewer

 

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Universities and social progress in modernising societies: how educational expansion has replaced socialism as an instrument of political reform

Journal Article
Charlton, B. G., & Andras, P. (2005)
Universities and social progress in modernising societies: how educational expansion has replaced socialism as an instrument of political reform. Critical Quarterly, 47(1-2), 30-39. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0011-1562.2005.00612.x
University and higher education comprising a multi-disciplinary training in abstract, systematic reasoning has a vital role in modernizing societies. Such an education seems t...

Pattern computation in neural communication systems

Journal Article
Andras, P. (2005)
Pattern computation in neural communication systems. Biological Cybernetics, 92, 452-460. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00422-005-0572-0
Biological data suggests that activity patterns emerging in small- and large-scale neural systems may play an important role in performing the functions of the neural system, ...

Modernizing UK health services:‘short-sharp-shock’reform, the NHS subsistence economy, and the spectre of health care famine

Journal Article
Charlton, B. G., & Andras, P. (2005)
Modernizing UK health services:‘short-sharp-shock’reform, the NHS subsistence economy, and the spectre of health care famine. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 11(2), 111-119. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2753.2005.00515.x
Modernization is the trend for societies to grow functionally more complex, efficient and productive. Modernization usually occurs by increased specialization of function (e.g...

Medical research funding may have over-expanded and be due for collapse

Journal Article
Charlton, B., & Andras, P. (2005)
Medical research funding may have over-expanded and be due for collapse. QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, 98(1), 53-55. https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmed/hci003
The continual and uninterrupted expansion of medical research funding is generally assumed to be a permanent feature of modern societies, but this expectation may turn out to ...

Management from the perspective of systems theory

Conference Proceeding
Andras, P., & Charlton, B. G. (2004)
Management from the perspective of systems theory. In Proceedings of Practising Philosophy of Management
Usual management theories focus on phenomenological aspects of organisations and management. Abstract communication systems theory offers a different approach, which can be us...

Neural activity pattern systems

Journal Article
Andras, P. (2005)
Neural activity pattern systems. Neurocomputing, 65, 531-536. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2004.10.041
Understanding how neural systems work needs appropriate models. Here we propose a model that describes neural systems in terms of abstract communication systems. We indicate h...

Bacillus Subtilis protein interaction network analysis

Conference Proceeding
Idowu, O. C., Lynden, S. J., Young, M. P., & Andras, P. (2004)
Bacillus Subtilis protein interaction network analysis. In Proceedings. 2004 IEEE Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference, 2004. CSB 2004 (623-625). https://doi.org/10.1109/CSB.2004.1332520
Identifying functionally important proteins that are essential to the survival of a bacterial cell is of considerable interest in the development of new antimicrobial agents. ...

e-Science Tools for the Analysis of Complex Systems

Conference Proceeding
Idowu, O., Lynden, S., & Andras, P. (2004)
e-Science Tools for the Analysis of Complex Systems. In Proc. e-Science All Hands Conference (320-325
Many real world complex systems (e.g., protein-protein interaction networks in living cells, the Internet) can be conceptualised as graphs of interacting components, where the...

Campaign to revitalise academic medicine: Is the bubble due to burst for medical research funding?

Journal Article
Charlton, B. G., & Andras, P. (2004)
Campaign to revitalise academic medicine: Is the bubble due to burst for medical research funding?. BMJ, 329, 294. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.329.7460.294-a

Dealing with complex networks of process interactions: A security measure

Conference Proceeding
Periorellis, P., Idowu, O. C., Lynden, S. J., Young, M. P., & András, P. (2004)
Dealing with complex networks of process interactions: A security measure. In Proceedings. Ninth IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (29-36). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECCS.2004.1310895
The majority of faults and consequent errors and failures in computer systems stem from the complexity of the system itself according to B. Schneier (2000). Yet complexity as ...

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