Martyn Amos

Martyn Amos is a Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at Northumbria University,[1] and an expert on natural computation and DNA computing.[2] 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 (2000–2002), the University of Exeter (2002–2006), and Manchester Metropolitan University (2006-2018). He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS).

Bibliography

• Martyn Amos, (Ed.) (2004). Cellular Computing. Series in Systems Biology. Oxford University Press (USA). ISBN 978-0-19-515539-6.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)

• Martyn Amos (2005). Theoretical and Experimental DNA Computation. Natural Computing Series. Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-65773-6. — The first general text to cover the whole field.

• Martyn Amos (2006). Genesis Machines - The New Science of Biocomputing. Atlantic Books. ISBN 978-1-84354-224-7. — A popular science style introduction to the topic.

• Martyn Amos and Ra Page (Eds.) (2014). Beta-Life: Stories from an A-Life Future. Comma Press. ISBN 978-1-90558-365-2.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link) — A collection of "science into fiction" short stories, based on the themes of "unconventional computing" and artificial life, with accompanying afterwords written by consultant scientists.

• Susan Stepney, Steen Rasmussen, and Martyn Amos (Eds.) (2018). Computational Matter. Natural Computing Series. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-65826-1. ISBN 978-3-319-65824-7.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)

References

1. http://www.martynamos.com Official homepage
2. Biography page, Royal Institution. Archived 22 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine