Professor of Virtual Environments in the Department of Computer Science at University College London. Before that he was Head of Department of Computer Science at Queen Mary College, University of London. He was visiting professor in Computer Science Division, University of California , Berkeley (1991 and 1992) and Visiting Scientist at the MIT Research Laboratory for Electronics, Sensory Communications Group (1998). His research has concentrated on immersive virtual environments since 1991. He is co-Editor in Chief of the journal Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments (MIT Press). Mel leads the VECG "Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics" research team of 25 expert theorists and designers, part of the Vision, Imaging and Virtual Environments Group at UCL. He has been an EPSRC Senior Research Fellow since 1999. He leads a new European consortium (PRESENCCIA) under the European FET Presence Research call. His publications include:

• Slater, M., Davison, A. and Rosner, P.A. "Generalised Event Mechanism for Interactive Systems" in R. Took and P. Grey ( eds) Building Interactive Systems: Architectures and Tools (Springer 1992);
• Davison, A., Drake, K. and Roberts, W., Slater, M. Distributed Window Systems: A Practical Guide (Addison Wesley 1992);
• Slater, M., and Usoh, M. "Body Centred Interaction in Immersive Virtual Environments" in N. Magnenat Thalmann and D. Thalmann (eds) Artificial Life and Virtual Reality (John Wiley and Sons 1994);
• Barfield, W., Sheridan, T., Zeltzer, D., and Slater, M. "Presence and Performance Within Virtual Environments", in W. Barfield and T. Furness (eds) Virtual Environments and Advanced Interface Design (Oxford University Press 1995);
• Slater, M., and Steed, A. "Meeting People Virtually: Experiments in Shared Virtual Environments", in R. Schroeder (ed) The Social Life of Avatars: Presence and Interaction in Shared Virtual Environments (Springer 2001);
• Slater, M., Steed, A., and Chrysanthou, Y. Computer Graphics and Virtual Environments: From Realism to Real-Time (Addison Wesley 2001);
• Loizides, A. and Slater, A. "The Empathic Visualisation Algorithm(EVA): An automatic mapping from Abstract Data to Naturalistic Visual Structures", Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Information Visualisation IV (2002): 705-713.

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