Dr. Stuart Chalmers

I was born in Paisley, and went to Williamsburgh primary school and then on to Paisley Grammar School. After that I started at Paisley University (now the University Of West Of Scotland In Paisley) and was there for 5 years. As part of my degree I worked for 1 year as an applications programmer at Mitsui Babcock (now Doosan Babcock Energy Limited).

After graduating from Paisley Uni I worked as a production line worker for a year at Compaq computers putting together motherboards.

I then went to Aberdeen University to do the Msc (Technical Theme) and stayed there for around 10 years, going on to do my PhD, and then as a Research Assistant (later Research Fellow) on the Conoise/Conoise-G projects.

From August 2005 to November 2006 I worked as part of the AKT project in Aberdeen, combining the Constraint Work from Conoise with web services then as part of the ITA project, looking at the use of constraint programming in network & information sciences. I also worked during this time as a teaching fellow, lecturing on Web Technology.

After leaving Aberdeen I went to Gothenburg, Sweden to work as part of a project with SP Technical Research Institute & Chalmers University. This involved in design of a large-scale communication architecture for Volvo/SAAB/Scania driving simulators using Ontologies and Semantic Web technology.

I moved back to the UK in 2009, working Dr. Iadh Ounis and Dr. Norman Gray on the Explicator project at Glasgow University, developing techniques to provide intelligent access to foreign data models within the areas of astronomy and high energy physics before moving in 2010 to the Royal Institute of British Architects to work in the Research & Development Department as Knowledge & Research Manager. In 2011 I took on a wider research role and became an RIBA Technical Research Officer.