Aida Mehonic

Principal Researcher - Research Applications, The Alan Turing Institute

Aida is a Principal Researcher at The Alan Turing Institute where she leads the Research Application Management team. She also the Innovation Lead on Innovate UK BridgeAI. Her focus is making sure that research outputs are not just openly available but that they meet stakeholder needs. Research Application Managers at Turing work on increasing the reach and maximising the positive impact of research outputs. The role of a RAM has been inspired by that of a product manager in a tech firm, but adapted for research purposes.

She recieved her BA in Mathematics from Cambridge and her PhD in Theoretical Physics from UCL. Her research into the physics of tumour formation was published in Nature and she won a Bronze Medal at the International Physics Olympiad. After her PhD, she worked in industry for six years, most recently as a Principal in a data science consultancy.

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