Susan Eisenbach

Eisenbach completed an undergraduate degree in Mathematics at Vassar College.^[5] She completed a master's degree in Mathematical Logic and in Computer Science at the University of London, before working as a school maths teacher.^[5]

Eisenbach joined the Department of Computing, Imperial College London, in September 1983. In 1994 she was appointed Director of Studies, a role she held for 15 years, with overall responsibility for teaching.^[6] She took a college-wide role as Dean of Teaching and Learning in 2010.^[7] In January 2011, she was made Head of the Department of Computing, which she completed in September 2016.^[8] She has supervised numerous PhD students, including Diomidis Spinellis^[3] and others.^[2][9]

She has published several books on programming. In 1981 she published PASCAL for Programmers.^[10] She published Program Design with Modula-2 in 1989.^[11] She published Reasoned Programming in 1994.^[12] Eisenbach's research focuses on how to produce concurrent programs that behave properly.^{[13][4][14][15]}

She has championed entrepreneurship amongst the student community.^[16] She is an advisor to the computer education program The Turing Lab, a partnership between Imperial College London graduates and YOOX Net-a-Porter Group.^[17] Eisenbach has spoken about the lack of women in technology since 2000.^[18] She pointed out that when "computing was less popular, we had far more women students".^[19] She was part of a discussion host by The Guardian on how to get more women into technology roles in 2013.^[20]