Natalia Chechina is a Lecturer in Computing in the Department of Computing & Informatics at Bournemouth University. Her research investigates approaches and techniques to enable scaling and efficient performance on commodity hardware where components are loosely coupled, communication is significant, and any of the components may fail or disconnect at any time. Natalia’s research interests include scaling distributed computation, cooperative robotics, parallel programming, Erlang, stochastic modelling, autonomous systems, and overlay networks.