Susheel Varma, Ph.D MBA FBCS

Susheel is a technologist (a.k.a possibilist) with 15 years of experience in leadership and delivering strategic and technology solutions for complex trans-national clinical and life-science research.

In his current role as Director of Engineering at HDR UK, he provides leadership and coordinates the confluent needs of scientific, data and technology to deliver and operate a cohesive national platform for health data research in the UK. He is a thought leader in the development of Trusted Research Environments (TREs) and is able to pragmatically convene, build, manage and empower a federated coalition of TRE providers nationally and internationally.

In his previous roles at EMBL-EBI and ELIXIR he managed and led an international portfolio of data science projects in multiple jurisdictions and research infrastructures - EMBL, ELIXIR, EOSC and GA4GH.

He has a broad operating range with in-depth expertise in managing, developing, integrating, testing and maintaining innovative technical solutions using distributed data, network and software technologies across scientific and clinical domains.