Previously, she was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, where she was the bioinformatics team leader and outreach coordinator for the myGrid research group. myGrid produced the Taverna workflow system, the myExperiment workflows repository and the BioCatalogue Web Services repository. Katy has given over 50 tutorials and hands-on workshops world-wide on scientific workflows, Taverna and distributed computing. She designs Taverna workflows for her research in bioinformatics and systems biology.