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Dr Irena Spasić

Work experience


2006 - School of Computer Science, University of Manchester

Experimental officer / Information manager

  • Working on a BBSRC funded project: Manchester Centre for Integrative Systems Biology.
  • Software development and information management in systems biology models of complex systems.
  • Development of methods of text mining for use in systems biology.
  • Identifying, maintaining and improving systems, databases, websites and other activities which support the relevant part of the Centre.
  • Maintaining professional relationships with project partners and other relevant professionals.
  • Under supervision of Prof. Douglas Kell, Prof. Norman Paton and Prof. John Keane.


2003 - 2006School of Chemistry, University of Manchester

Postdoctoral research associate

  • Working on a BBSRC funded project: Metabolic footprinting: A high-information strategy for functional genomics.
  • Storage, analysis and visualisation of the matabolome data and their integration with other post-genomic data.
  • Under supervision of Prof. Douglas Kell.


2001 - 2003 School of Computing, Science and Engineering, University of Salford

Research assistant

  • Worked on the BioPath project (a Eureka funded project coordinated by LION BioScience and funded by the German Ministry of Research).
  • Developed software and research in natural language processing: automatic term recognition, term clustering, term classification, ontology update.
  • Lectures & tutorials in Natural language processing.
  • Under supervision of Dr Sophia Ananiadou.


1996 - 1997 School of Mathematics, University of Belgrade

Visiting assistant lecturer

  • Lectures & tutorials in Theory of algorithms, languages and automata.
  • Grade reports & exams.
  • Assistant to Prof. Marica Prešić.


1994 - 2001 School of Economics, University of Belgrade

Assistant lecturer

  • Lectures & tutorials in Mathematics.
  • Grade reports & exams.
  • Assistant to Prof. Miodrag Ivović and Prof. Branislav Boričić.
  • IT training courses.
  • Participant in research project: "Development and applications of quantitative models and new information technologies for financial decision making under transitional conditions of economic growth" (funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Republic of Serbia).
  • Participant in research project: "Computing and applications" (funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Republic of Serbia).

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