Alexandra (Alex) Poulovassilis is a Greek and British computer scientist who is a professor emerita of computer science and College Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research interests have included information management, database schemas and their transformation,

information visualization Information is an abstract concept that refers to that which has the power to inform. At the most fundamental level information pertains to the interpretation of that which may be sensed. Any natural process that is not completely random, a ...

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Education and career

Poulovassilis earned a bachelor's degree at the

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, worked for IBM in Greece, and returned to the UK for graduate study at Birkbeck. She was a postdoctoral researcher at

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, and joined the staff of King's College London in 1991. She became a reader at Birkbeck in 1999, and full professor in 2001. There, she headed the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems from 2003 to 2006 and 2009 to 2010. She was the founding head of the Graduate Research School, serving from 2003 to 2005. She co-directed the London Knowledge Lab from 2003 to 2015, and directed the Birkbeck Knowledge Lab from 2016 to 2021. She became an assistant dean in 2009 and a deputy dean in 2015. She retired as professor emerita in 2021.

Books

Poulovassilis is the editor of books including: *''Web Dynamics: Adapting to Change in Content, Size, Topology and Use'' (Mark Levene, Springer, 2004) *''The Functional Approach to Data Management: Modeling, Analyzing and Integrating Heterogeneous Data'' (Peter M. D. Gray, Larry Kerschberg, and Peter J. H. King, Springer, 2004) *''Reasoning in Event-Based Distributed Systems'' (with Sven Helmer and Fatos Xhafa, Springer, 2011) *''Gender, Science and Innovation: New Perspectives'' (with Helen Lawton Smith, Colette Henry, and Henry Etzkowitz, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Poulovassilis, Alexandra Year of birth missing (living people) Living people British computer scientists British women computer scientists Greek computer scientists Greek women computer scientists Alumni of the University of Cambridge Alumni of Birkbeck, University of London Academics of King's College London Academics of Birkbeck, University of London