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Heidorn to Lead Arizona LIS School

September 9, 2009

Associate Professor P. Bryan Heidorn has accepted a new position as director of the University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science. He will begin his new post in October 2009.

Heidorn has been a member of the GSLIS faculty since 1995. His research areas include natural language processing, text mining for metadata, and information retrieval particularly in biodiversity literature and museum informatics.

In December 2007, Heidorn took a position at the National Science Foundation as program manager in the Division of Biological Infrastructure where he worked with a number of programs including Advances in Biological Informatics (including CAREER), Biological Informatics PostDocs, Assembling the Tree of Life, Cyber-enabled Discovery and Innovation, INTEROP, DataNet, Data Working Group, the Dimensions of Biodiversity Working Group and Program Officer for the Plant Science Cyberinfrastructure Center (IPlant). During this time he continued his active research program at GSLIS.

"Bryan Heidorn has been a key player in developing GSLIS participation in informatics activities across campus and beyond, especially in the area of bioinformatics. His research into biodiversity, using informatics tools and techniques, is particularly distinctive, and even though we know his contributions to the field will continue, his contributions to the School and the campus will be much missed," said GSLIS Dean John Unsworth.

"It was my privilege to be a faculty member at GSLIS where the faculty, staff and administration are universally supportive not only of students but of each other. I have benefited greatly from this mutual respect that allows everyone to grow and expand their skills while enjoying the fresh perspective that students and colleagues bring each day," said Heidorn.

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