Susan Eisenbach was at Imperial from September 1983 until July 2020. She was Head of the Department of Computing from January 2010 until September 2016, a position she was honoured to hold. Prior to that sheI held a college post as Dean of Learning and Teaching. Prior to that she was Director of Studies in the Department of Computing for 15 years, with overall responsibility for all of Computing’s teaching provision.

Susan has a great interest in how we can produce good software systems and this pervades both her views on what should be taught at undergraduate and postgraduate level and her research. Her current research interests are in how we can produce smart contracts for the blockchain that behave correctly and specification languages for large open systems. Both strands of research have available software systems from github.