Mike Lynch

Who is Mike Lynch?

Michael Felix Lynch BSc, PhD, RChem, FInstInfSc, MBCS is a Professor Emeritus in the Information School of the University of Sheffield, England, his main research having been in chemoinformatics. Michael Lynch obtained B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from University College, Dublin in 1954 and 1957. Following two years in industry in the UK, he joined the staff of Chemical Abstracts Service in Columbus, Ohio in the USA, in 1961.

Lynch returned to the UK in 1965 and was a teacher and researcher at Sheffield in the Postgraduate School of Librarianship and Information Science, later the Department of Information Studies and now the Information School, from 1965 until 1995. His research interests centred on the characterization of data structures implicit in records of information, both in relation to databases of text and of chemical structures, and on applying these data structures for the development of algorithms which might then lead to useful applications.