Perdita Stevens

Stevens read mathematics at the University of Cambridge, earning a bachelor's degree in 1987. She went to the University of Warwick for graduate study in abstract algebra, earning a master's degree in 1988 and completing a PhD in 1992. Her doctoral dissertation, Integral Forms for Weyl Modules of \mathrm{GL}(2,\mathrm{Q}), was supervised by Sandy Green. After working in industry as a software engineer, Stevens joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh in 1984. She became a reader there in 2003 and in 2014 was given a personal chair as Professor of Mathematics of Software Engineering. ==Books==

Stevens is the author of books including: • Using UML: Software Engineering with Objects and Components (with Rob Pooley, Addison-Wesley, 1999; 2nd ed., 2006) • How to Write Good Programs: A Guide for Students (Cambridge University Press, 2020) ==References==