Stuart Anderson is a professor of Dependable Systems at Edinburgh, joining Edinburgh University in 1986. Between 1979 and 1986 Stuart was a lecturer in Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University, taking a leave of absence to take up a visiting researcher position at the Programming Methodology Group, led by Bengt Nordstom and Jan Smith at Gothenburgh University.

Stuart is particularly interested in socio-technical systems, resilience of such systems and how Social Science and Informatics provide a unique perspective on the conception, design, deployment and operation of computer-based systems. The Social Informatics Cluster in Edinburgh works closely with members of ISSTI and with the Edinburgh e-Health Interdisciplinary group. Currently we are working on Information Infrastructures and their role in analysing long-lived, large-scale systems. Stuart is also interested in Social Computation and Collective Adaptive Systems and recently has been working jointly with NHS24 and other Scottish Agencies on the development of a Digital Health Institute designed to stimulate innovation and knowledge exchange.