Awards and funding

• EU Network of Excellence Semantic Interoperability and Data Mining in Biomedicine - Network Visit Grants Funding (2006) - Approximately €1500 awarded to visit EMBL-EBI and collaborate with Dr Susanna-Assunta Sansone and Dr Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann on applications of text mining in metabolomics.
• Daiwa Adrian prize (2004) - A triennial award for excellence in scientific collaboration between the UK and Japan.
• ORS award (2002) - Overseas Research Students award scheme was set up by the Secretary of State for Education and Science to attract high-quality international students to the UK to undertake research. It is given to outstanding overseas students on the basis of academic merit only.

Membership

• International Society for Systems Biology (ISSB), 2007 - present
• Metabolomics Standards Initiative - Ontology Working Group, Metabolomics Society, 2006 - present

Refereeing for journals

• Bioinformatics
• Journal of Biomedical Informatics
• International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
• BMC Bioinformatics
• Drug Discovery Today
• Nucleic Acids Research

Refereeing for book publishers

• Artech House Publishers, Inc.

Program committee membership

• International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB), Saarbrücken, Germany, 2009
• International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB), London, UK, 2008
• COLING Workshop on Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine and its Applications, Geneva, Switzerland, 2004
• ACL Workshop on Natural Language Processing in Biomedicine, Sapporo, Japan, 2003

Invited speaker

• 19th International Conference of the European Federation for Medical Informatics (MIE 2005), Workshop on Terminologies and Ontologies in Biomedicine: Can Text Mining Help?, Geneva, Switzerland, 2005

Invited seminar

• Information Management Group Seminar Series, School of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK, 2008
• Nestlé Research Centre, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2007
• Data and Decision Engineering Seminar, School of Informatics, University of Manchester, UK, 2005
• Bioinformatics Seminar, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, UK, 2005