Amanda Peart is a Senior Lecturer in computer science within the School of Computing, University of Portsmouth, where she predominantly researches and teaches in computer networks at all levels in the undergraduate program. Dr. Peart has held a variety of external examiner appointments for a number of universities. Her main area of research is the quality of service (QoS) in ad hoc wireless networks. Dr. Peart's research investigates techniques that provide a satisfactory balance for applications continually demanding higher bandwidths while the users demand better QoS in wireless environments with bandwidth, delay, jitter, reliability, and power challenges. She can be reached at amanda.peart@port.ac.uk.