Dr Julian Todd

Julian grew up with a life-long interest in mathematics and completed a PhD in the Representation of Algebras at Bristol University.

He discovered data science in 2003 (before that was the name for it) when he co-wrote the PublicWhip which web-scraped Hansard and created the first public database of all the MPs' votes in Parliament.

He likes seeing problems from an unconventional viewpoint, outside of what's possible, to come up with questions that are not always welcome, but which need to be looked at.

When not at work he experiments with VR technology for drawing maps of caves, and goes hang-gliding.