During and after my PhD, it has generated a
number of external grants, which include:
1999: (SFI)Santa Fe Institute
Fellowship in Computational
Modelling and Complexity. Santa Fe, New Mexico. Intensive and
challenging summer program sponsored by Coopers & Lybrand, L.L.P.
which enabled discussions with international experts in the field and
wide exposure of academic PhD work related to modelling artificial and
real stock markets
2000: (ETF)
Edinburgh
Technology Fund's early seed funding, for £10,000. This
grant enabled some advances in commercial and technical developments of
a Java version of the LETS system (Learning and Evolutionary Trading
System). The work was carried out by Jackson Pauls and myself, at
Edinburgh University, Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute
(AIAI)
2003: (POC)
Proof
of Concept Project grant from Scottish
Enterprise for the amount of ~£173,000ending in
November 2004. I acted as the Principal
Investigator; also involved in this project were Prof. Peter Ross,
technical advisor to the team; software developers Jackson
Pauls BSc and Emanuele Costa BSc, MSc; and Project Management Team
members Dr. Siobhan Jordan, representative from Scottish Enterprise and
Dr. Brendan McGuckin from Napier's Commercialisation Office. We were
based at Napier University's School of Computing. The outcome of this
project was successful in terms of proving the concept and finding
market potential for the technology
2005:(POCP)
Proof
of Concept Plus, Outcome Manager grant for >£32,000. Our
Outcome Manager work was provided by Mainstay Innovation Ltd., with
Michael
Campbell-Birkett as the main consultant. Work included business
planning and appraisals of two private fund proposals. The agreement reached was that the commercialisation route
most appropriate to exploit the technology would be to form a Company.
Level E Limited was incorporated in March 30th 2005 for this purpose
2005:(RSI)
Royal
Society of Edinburgh Enterprise Fellowship, grant for
>£40,000. This grant provides me with an incredible business
network of mentors, professional advisors and business training linked
to an MBA at Dundee University. A successful outcome of
this phase would be to seek strategic funding to fully launch
Level E Limited
From
February 2001 to May 2003, full time Research
Fellow
at Napier University, working
for: An Investigation of Hyper-Heuristics
Methods , EPSRC research grant GR/N36660, joint with
GR/N36837 at the University of Nottingham. The Edinburgh team was
led by Prof. Peter
Ross
Referee
of JMMA,
Journal of Mathematical Modelling and Algorithms
Applications : Forecasting, Real and
Artificial Stock Markets. Modelling the behaviour of learning
artificial agents
Curriculum
Vitae
[.ps format][Retrieve
Post Script version, A4 paper size, 5 pages]
[.pdf
format][Retrieve Portable Data
File version, A4 paper size, 5 pages]
Other
Interests:
Family, of course. My husband Mark
Calvert who works
full-time for Nokia Enterprise Solutions, is doing a BA in Business Studies at Napier University. We
have two sons, Ethan was born on July 29th 2003 and Aidan on December
29th 2004. My brother Guillermo Alvarez-Schulenburg is currently studying a BSc in Biochemistry at Heriot-Watt University. My sister
Vianney Cárdenas-Schulenburg lives in Saint Bruno, Canada, with
her husband Roberto and their children Roberto Jr. and Alex. My parents
live in Baja California South, México and work for the Bill Fish
Foundation, which is dedicated to the preservation of fish
Investing . When we can afford them, we
love
buying properties and stocks
Bodybuilding. We
like bodybuilding in the natural way (no banned chemicals or
supplements involved), training, nutrition and supplementation. We
train at the Next
Generation Clubs in Edinburgh. In some early competitive activities
in the bodybuilding world I took part of, in 1998 I was awarded first
place and overall title in the Physique, Under 52kgs class of the ANB
Scottish Championships of Natural Bodybuilding. Then I got 3rd place at
the GREAT BRITAIN in the same year, and again in 2000. More info in my bodybuilding
page
SCUBA Diving. I am a NAUI Open Water Diver. However, I haven't done any diving lately, but I still
like it
I also love medicine and all sort of medical
documentaries
Very surprisingly, at times this page has been
rated amongst the top UK sites
on
bodybuilding, and has somehow motivated over a hundred people to start
training more seriously, to learn about nutrition, how to keep
a
healthy lifestyle combining well balanced foods and moderate exercise,
or even to compete. I am grateful for that, and this has been the
reason for which I have decided to leave the page. It is only updated
every
once in a while.
Features general information about bodybuilding,
including links for those who wish to compete in the UK
I no longer compete; only train, but not really
regularly
The site includes a few photos of the 1998
Scottish Natural
Bodybuilding Competition, where I was lucky enough to get first place
in my class (under 52kgs) and to win the overall title as well. Also,
the 1998 British Championship, where I got 3rd place, and a couple of
photos from the 2000 British Championship where I got 3rd place again
