Professor Peter Edwards

About

Email Addressp.edwards@abdn.ac.ukSchool/DepartmentPrincipal's Office ORCiDLinkedin Biography Professor Peter Edwards became Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen on 1 November 2025. He joined the University of Aberdeen as a postdoctoral fellow in Computing Science in October 1988, before moving into his first academic position as a Lecturer in 1991. His academic research focuses on the design of intelligent information infrastructures that promote transparency and accountability in computational systems, on which he has published widely. Much of this work has been interdisciplinary in nature, involving collaborations across fields including medicine, law, geography, transport studies, food science, and design. He has served as Principal Investigator on major UK Resear

Education

• PhD Computational Chemistry 1990 - University of Leeds

Selected publications

• Embedding AI-Enabled Data Infrastructures for Sustainability in Agri-Food: Soft-Fruit and Brewery Use Case Perspectives 2024 - PublishedMarkovic, M., Li, A. H., Ayall, T. A., Watson, N. J., Bowler, A. L., Woods, M., Edwards, P., Ramsey, R., Beddows, M. A., Kuhnert, M., Leontidis, G. Sensors, vol. 24, no. 2024, 7327Contributions to Journals: Articles[ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/s24227327[OPEN ACCESS] https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/56c28a6a-f00e-40ac-bba6-09604d02fea9/download
• [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/s24227327
• [OPEN ACCESS] https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/56c28a6a-f00e-40ac-bba6-09604d02fea9/download
• Farm Explorer: A Tool for Calculating Transparent Greenhouse Gas Emissions 2024 - PublishedMarkovic, M., Germano, S., Garijo, D., Edwards, P., Li, A., Ayall, T. A., Ramsey, R., Leontidis, G. Contributions to Journals: Conference Articles[ONLINE] https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3828/paper31.pdf[OPEN ACCESS] https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/8933a31f-de0d-4382-8d8d-c6d04b6473a2/download
• [ONLINE] https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3828/paper31.pdf
• [OPEN ACCESS] https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/8933a31f-de0d-4382-8d8d-c6d04b6473a2/download
• Model pruning enables localized and efficient federated learning for yield forecasting and data sharing 2024 - PublishedLi, A. H., Markovic, M., Edwards, P., Leontidis, G. Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 242, pp. 1-12Contributions to Journals: Articles[ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2023.122847[OPEN ACCESS] https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/b523b56b-12bc-42d0-bd50-a645cd3fd6bc/download[ONLINE] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957417423033493
• [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2023.122847
• [OPEN ACCESS] https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstreams/b523b56b-12bc-42d0-bd50-a645cd3fd6bc/download
• [ONLINE] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957417423033493