Aad van Moorsel joined the University of Newcastle in 2004. He worked in industry from 1996 until 2003, first as a researcher at Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies in Murray Hill and then as a research manager at Hewlett-Packard Labs in Palo Alto, both in the United States.

Aad got his PhD in computer science from Universiteit Twente in The Netherlands (1993) and has a Masters in mathematics from Universiteit Leiden, also in The Netherlands. After finishing his PhD he was a postdoc at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA, for two years.

Aad has worked in a variety of areas, from performance modelling to systems management, from web services to cloud computing and on issues of security and trust. In his last position in industry, he was responsible for HP's research in web and grid services, and worked on the software strategy of the company.

His research agenda aims at establishing an intelligent enterprise, with a specific focus on trust, privacy and security. The goal is to provide tools to improve IT decision making, if possible based on objective, quantitative methods, eventually fully automated. This involves mathematical modelling, algorithms and service-oriented software implementations.

The recent research is highly interdisciplinary, using ideas from social and business sciences, to gain a deeper understanding of issues of trust in, for instance, cloud computing. DTI, EPSRC and EU-funded collaborations are ongoing with Hewlett-Packard, Merrill-Lynch, Warwick, Bath, UCL, various universities throughout Europe, and the Business School as well as the Medical School in Newcastle.