The University of Sheffield
Automatic Control and Systems Engineering

Dr Robin Purshouse
Lecturer

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Dr Robin Purshouse
Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
University of Sheffield
Sheffield
S1 3JD
Tel: (+44) (0)114 222 5618
Fax: (+44) (0)114 222 5683
Email: r.purshouse @ sheffield.ac.uk
Room: C6b, Amy Johnson Building

Biopic
Research interests
Selected publications

Biopic

Robin Purshouse received the MEng degree in Control Systems Engineering in 1999 and a PhD in Control Systems in 2004 for his research on evolutionary many-objective optimisation. Commercial experience includes Logica plc (1999-2000), PA Consulting Group (2003-2007) and Rolls-Royce plc (2007-2008). He returned to academia in 2008 as a Research Fellow in the School of Health and Related Research at the University of Sheffield and was appointed as Lecturer in the Department of Automatic Control & Systems Engineering in 2010.

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Research interests

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Selected publications

Purshouse RC, Meier PS, Brennan A, Taylor KB, Rafia R. Estimated effect of alcohol pricing policies on health and health economic outcomes in England: an epidemiological model. Lancet 2010;375(9723):1355-1364.

Meier PS, Purshouse R, Brennan A. Assessing the impact of policy options for alcohol price regulation: the importance of modelling population heterogeneity. Addiction 2010;105(3):383-393.

Purshouse RC, Fleming PJ. On the evolutionary optimization of many conflicting objectives. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 2007;11(6):770-784.

Chadwick A, Moore J, Hupcey MAZ, Purshouse R. Chapter 11: Improving the pharmaceutical R&D process: how simulation can support management decision making. Computer Applications in Pharmaceutical Research and Development (2006), 247-273.

Fleming PJ, Purshouse RC. Evolutionary algorithms in control systems engineering: a survey. Control Engineering Practice 2002;10(11):1223-1241.

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