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Tony Pridmore

Head of School of Computer Science, Faculty of Science

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Biography

Tony Pridmore is Professor and Head of the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham. He holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Warwick and a PhD in Computer Vision from the Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield. Before returning to Computer Science in 1999 he held academic posts in both Information and Manufacturing Engineering.

Expertise Summary

Building on his theoretical and applied work in computer vision, Tony's current focus is the development of large-scale infrastructures supporting research in plant phenomics - the automatic, objective measurement of the structural and functional properties of large numbers of (usually food-producing) plants. He is Director of PhenomUK, the UK national plant phenotyping network, UK Scientific Representative on the General Assembly of the ESFRI supported, pan-European infrastructure EMPHASIS and a member of the Scientific and Industrial Advisory Board of ELIXIR. Tony is co-founder and a member of the management board of the Hounsfield Facility, a unique installation providing automated extraction of 3D structural descriptions of plants from X-ray data.

Research Summary

My research interests centre on the establishment and maintenance of large scale, distributed research infrastructures making plant phenotyping facilities available nationally and internationally.

Selected Publications

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