Siân Ede, Deputy Director, has responsibility for delivering on the UK Branch's main strategic themes and manages the Branch's major arts partnerships. Formerly Arts Director, Siân pioneered the Foundation's Art and Science programme and commissioned research and support for encouraging greater public participation in music-making within its Participatory Music programme. She is editor and co-author of Strange and Charmed: Science and the contemporary visual arts (Gulbenkian 2000) and author of Art and Science (IB Tauris, 2nd edition 2008) and occasionally speaks at or chairs art-science events in the UK and internationally. She is a regular panel and committee member at the Royal Society.