Marian Petre


Marian Petre is a British computer scientist and Professor of Computing at the Open University and Director of its Centre for Research in Computing, known for her work on Visual Programming Environments, and developed the concept of cognitive dimensions of notations.

Education

Petre obtained her PhD in computer science from the University College London in 1989.

Career and research

In 1990 she started her academic career at the Institute for Perception Research, in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, which was directed by Theo Bemelmans. Back in Britain she joined the Open University and started cooperation with Thomas R.G. Green, with whom she developed the concept of cognitive dimensions of notations. At the Open University she was eventually promoted to Professor of Computing. Petre was awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in "recognition of her empirical research into software design."

Selected publications

Her selected publications include: