Professor Ben Hall is a computational biologist in the department of medical physics and biomedical engineering at UCL. He leads a program on “Modelling the decision processes of cancer”, where his team develop computational models of the aging, cancer initiation, and progression. Work in his group is funded by CRUK, the MRC, Microsoft Research, and the Royal Society. He is founder and co-chair of the UCL Computational Cancer Collaboratorium, a new centre dedicated to advancing computational methods in oncology and connecting computational cancer researchers across UCL.

Prior to his current position he worked as a Royal Society University Research Fellow, and MRC Investigator, leading a programme at the MRC Cancer Unit in the University of Cambridge. Before that he worked with Dr Jasmin Fisher at Microsoft, constructing executable models of organ development in C. elegans and developing tools for formal verification in biology. He completed his DPhil and previous post-doctoral positions in molecular modelling at Oxford and UCL.