Martyn Amos


Martyn Amos is a Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Northumbria University, and an expert on natural computation and DNA computing. He was born in Hexham, Northumberland in 1971. He graduated with a degree in Computer Science from Coventry University in 1993, 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, the University of Exeter, and Manchester Metropolitan University. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society.