Dame Wendy Hall#
| Membership Number: | 2707 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2009 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://wendy.ecs.soton.ac.uk |
Present and Previous Positions
- Director of the Web Science Institute
- Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK
- 2010 - 2014 Dean of the Faculty of Physical Science and Engineering, University of Southampton, UK
- 2002 - 2007 Head of the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS)
Fields of Scholarship
- Multimedia
- Hypermedia
- Semantic Web
- Interface between the life sciences and the physical sciences
Honours and Awards
- 2009 Dame Commander of the British Empire in the 2009 UK New Year's Honours list
- 2009 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 2009 Awarded DBE
- 2008 - 2010 President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- 2006 - 2008 Vice-President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- 2007 Member of the British Library Board
- 2006 Joint Founding Director of the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI)
- 2006 Anita Borg Award for Technical Leadership
- 2005 - 2008 Senior Vice-President of the Royal Academy of Engineering
- 2003 - 2004 President of the British Computer Society
- 2000 Awarded CBE
- 2000 Elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
- 2003 - 2004 President of the British Computer Society
- 2004 - 2010 Member of Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology
- 2005 - 2010 (Founder) Member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council
- 1996 - 2002 EPSRC Senior Research Fellow
