Dr. Neil Carrigan is a Research Fellow in Human-Computer Systems at the University of Bath. On the NECTISE project, Neil works in the ‘Collaborative Working’ stream of the Decision Support (DS) topic group. A particular concern of the work at Bath is how to support the design of systems that support collaborative decision-making.

Dr. Nicholas Caldwell
On the NECTISE project, his focus is on applying and
extending change management techniques and software to systems-of-systems
applications within the Decision Support Theme

Mr Tim Mackley
Tim is a Senior Lecturer at Cranfield and is involved in the area of Through Life Systems Management. Particular interests are determining what is important for ensuring that products ready for NEC and how this can be built into the Life Cycle Management process. A focus of research has been on capability chains and an approach for ensuring “agility” in capability called the Robust Enterprise Approach for Agility in Capability Through-life, REA2CT.

Dr. John Deane
John joined Cranfield University in August 2008, to work in the Through Life Systems Management area of NECTISE specifically on critical system factors and how they influence decision management. He has also been engaged in the formulation of plans for exemplar activities and later phases of research work.

This followed a 38 year career with MBDA UK and its predecessor companies working on missile systems design and development.

Professor Jie Xu is a Professor of Computing at the University of Leeds and Director of the EPSRC WRG e-Science Centre, involving the three White Rose Universities of Leeds, York and Sheffield. Professor Xu now leads a research team studying Grid technologies with a focus on complex system integration, dependable and secure collaboration, and evolving system architectures. He is the Topic Leader of NECTISE Systems Architecture team.

Dr Colin C Venters

Lu Liu is a Research Fellow in the School of Computing at the University of Leeds. He is working on Systems Architecture Topic in NECTISE. The goal of his research is to investigate and develop architectural strategies and mechanisms appropriate for the through-life delivery of NEC. His research focuses on the investigation and development of advanced mechanisms for coping with evolution and changes.

Dr Duncan Russell is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Computing at the University of Leeds. He is the lead research assistant for the Systems Architecture topic in NECTISE. Dr Russell is investigating architectural models that support interoperability, evolution and dependability through service-oriented architecture and novel architectural models.

Dr. Zongyang Luo is currently a research assistant working on NECTISE project in the School of Computing at the University of Leeds. His work in NECTISE is mainly focused on Architecture Framework, Service-oriented Architecture (SOA). He received his PhD degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Surrey, UK, in 2008.

Professor Ian Postlethwaite
Ian Postlethwaite is the Control and Monitoring topic group leader and is a member of the Core Management Team. At Leicester, he is supervising the research streams in diagnostics and reconfiguration along with colleagues, Professor Da-Wei Gu and Dr Chris Edwards.

Da-Wei Gu is a member of the Control & Monitoring Topic Group, with particular research interests in fault tolerant and optimal operations of networks in a highly uncertain environment, using sophisticated optimisation algorithms and artificial intelligent approaches

Liqun Yao is a Research Associate in the Department of Engineering, University of Leicester (Control Systems). She is working on the health management stream (CM2) in the Control & Monitoring (C&M) topic for the NECTISE project. Her main task is developing a monitoring and diagnostic capability, which when integrated with the prognostics developments, will provide a health management system for use in a network enabled system.

Professor Michael Henshaw is Director of the NECTISE research programme and Professor of Systems Engineering in the Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department of Loughborough University.

He graduated with a first class BSc. and then a PhD in Applied Physics from the University of Hull and after three years researching in plasma physics at the University of York, joined British Aerospace (now BAE Systems) in 1989 as an aerodynamics engineer. He worked on a number of research programmes in aeronautical engineering specialising in unsteady aerodynamics, in which he was awarded a BAE Systems Chairman's silver award for innovation and four bronze awards. He studied part-time and was awarded a MBA (distinction) from the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside in 1998. In 1999 he set up and led the successful PUMA DARP research programme (unsteady aerodynamics) that involved six universities and four industries. He subsequently developed integrated, multi-disciplinary research programmes including FLAVIIR and NECTISE.

Michael Henshaw joined Loughborough University to lead NECTISE in August 2006. He has also developed other research activities in integration of complex systems; system of systems engineering; multi-disciplinary teams, projects, and experimentation; engineering management; autonomous systems; and engineering for enduring capability. He is a member of RAeSoc, AIAA, IEEE and INCOSE and serves in an advisory role as a member at large of the NATO RTO Systems Concepts Integration Panel and the NDIC working group on systems engineering and open architectures.

Murray Sinclair
Responsible for Human Factors co-ordination of the themes on the NECTISE programme.

Dr. Esmond Urwin
Research into Scenario Based Planning, collaborative working and e-working. Responsible for developing and delivering demonstrations of research carried out within the NECTISE research programme. Co-ordinating work across eighteen researchers from ten different universities and assessing stakeholder input from BAE Systems, Ministry of Defence research scientists and the EPSRC.

Professor Charles Dickerson

Educated at Purdue University and the University of Texas, USA; Lecturer, The Catholic University of America (1978-1980); Professional Staff, Center for Naval Analyses (1980-1984); Senior Engineer, Northrop Advanced Systems Division (1984-1986); Research Engineer, Lockheed Skunkworks for Advanced Projects (1986-1988); MIT Lincoln Laboratory (1988-2003): secondment as Aegis Systems Engineer for Navy Theatre Wide Defense (1997-1999), secondment as Director of Architecture for the Chief Engineer of the U.S. Navy (2000-2003); Technical Fellow, BAE Systems (2003-2007); joined Loughborough University 2007

Dr Eunice Maytorena-Sanchez
Eunice is working on the Through Life Systems Management research
stream investigating stakeholder (customer, prime contractor,
supplier, user) perceptions of NEC environments and associated risks
from an operational an business perspective. This investigation will
contribute towards achieving Manchester Business School's research aim
of developing new ways of understanding, managing and utilising NECs
under conditions of high variability and low predictability.

Professor Mark Price
Queen's University Belfast are working the Through Life Systems Management them with a focus on Whole Life Costing. The team is developing models and approaches for both synchronous and asynchronous life cycles based on the Genetic Causal methodology which can assist in identifying key cost drivers and their impact on final cost.

Ian Whitfield
Dr Robert Ian Whitfield is a lecturer in the Department of Design Manufacture and Engineering Management at the University of Strathclyde. He is currently involved in the development of collaborative tools and techniques for the integration of distributed design expertise across Europe. His research background subsequently covers issues relating to: co-ordination, collaboration, integration, resource management, process modelling and optimisation and modular design.

Dr. Iain Boyle
Within the Decision Support topic, Iain is responsible for the
Decision Management stream, which concentrates on developing management
techniques to increase the effectiveness of decision-making during NEC
delivery. Techniques focus on defining decision support requirements and
subsequently developing and enacting decision support to meet these
requirements during NEC delivery.

Dr Kelly is a Senior Lecturer within the Department of Computer Science at the University of York. He is also Academic Theme Leader for Dependability in the UK MoD funded Software Systems Engineering Initiative (SSEI).  His research interests include safety case management, software safety analysis and justification, software architecture safety, certification of adaptive and learning systems, and the dependability of “Systems of Systems”. He has supervised a number of research projects in these areas with funding and support from Airbus, BAE SYSTEMS, Data Systems and Solutions, DTI, EPSRC, ERA Technology, Ministry of Defence, QinetiQ and Rolls-Royce.  He has published over 100 papers on high integrity systems development and justification in international conferences and journals. He is also and Chair of the IET’s Functional Safety Network Executive Committee. He received his DPhil from the University of York in 1999, and MA in Computer Science (1st Class) from the University of Cambridge in 1994.