EPCC - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Applications Consultant & Developer
& Developer
I joined EPCC in November 2021. I have a background in Astrophysics having most recently come from doing a postdoc, and previously a PhD at the University of St Andrews working on Solar Physics. Interspersed with Solar Physics I also worked as a research software engineer with DiRAC primarily working on the SWIFT cosmology code. When not coding up physics models I enjoy cycling, Munro bagging and hanging out with my cat.
Job Titles:
- Applications Consultant in Data Science
Job Titles:
- Head of Strategic Funding Management
Job Titles:
- Data Science Applications Consultant
Role
Data Science Applications Consultant
I joined EPCC as a Data Science Application Developer in October 2020, and work on the DataLoch project.
I completed my MBiochem degree in Biochemistry at the University of York in 2019. My Masters project focused on bioinformatics, using R and Linux tools to analyse RNA-seq data from neuroblastoma cell lines. Alongside my Masters studies, I completed an internship with Digital Creativity Labs and Arup, using R to tidy, analyse and visualise experimental data.
Role
APPLICATIONS CONSULTANT
I joined EPCC in 2014 to provide administrative support for HPC training courses and as one of the ARCHER helpdesk team.
I graduated from University of Edinburgh with BSc Computer Science and worked as a systems and applications developer before moving into education where I worked as IT user support in schools and taught Computing Science in several high schools in Edinburgh and the Lothians.
Job Titles:
- SSI Communications Officer
Role
SSI Communications Officer
Denis joined EPCC and the Software Sustainability Institute in January 2023 as Communications Officer. He previously worked within the arts public relations field, contributing to the communication efforts of numerous events and festivals across Scotland and the UK, from Edinburgh's August festivals to the Birmingham 2022 Festival and many others. Denis graduated from Queen Margaret University with an MSc in Strategic Communications and Public Relations and a BA (Hons) in Public Relations and Media, which helped him develop strong communications skills in the charity, NGO, and activism fields. While at university he also pursued his passion for graphic design by exploring new ways to implement and evaluate visual communication.
Role
Director of Teaching
I am EPCC's Director of Teaching and the Programme Director for the University of Edinburgh's online Masters in Data Science, Technology & innovation.
I am EPCC's Director of Teaching and the Programme Director for the University of Edinburgh's online Masters in Data Science, Technology & innovation.
I joined in April 2003 as an Applications Consultant after completing a PhD in Computational Statistical Physics on the subject of Spin Glasses.Since 2003 I've been involved in a broad cross-section of EPCC's work, from commercial data mining to HPC simulations of fusion reactors. I've also been closely involved with EPCC's training and education activities.
Recently, my work has concentrated more in the area of Data Science, and I've worked on projects related to data infrastructures, data management, data preservation and data-intensive computing. I'm involved in two Masters programmes:
Role
Project Manager
I completed a Ph.D. in Theoretical Astrophysics in 2000 at the University of Heidelberg. I began work at EPCC in August 2000 as a member of the ARTS (Academic Research Training Support) group. Some of my current and more recent projects that I have been involved in include: LSST, DEISA, the MSc in High Performance Computer Programming and HPC-Europa2.
Evgenij joined EPCC in 2019 to work on the ASiMoV project with focus on profiling and tuning performance and scalability of large-scale multi-physics simulations, virtual certification, and Exascale Computing.
Previously he worked on several DataLab projects with SMEs: using Machine Learning for catergorisation and tagging of financial transactions (with The IDCo) and using MATLAB Distributed Compute Server to optimise a financial backtesting pipeline (with Aberdeen Standard Investments).
Evgenij holds a Dipl. Inf. from Humboldt University Berlin and a PhD in Computer Science from Heriot-Watt University, having worked on distributed sparse matrix multiplication and on improving dynamic scheduling using work stealing in a distributed runtime system for parallel Haskell. He is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a certified Software and Data Carpentry instructor helping build the local Edinburgh Carpentries community.
Role
Programme Manager
I am a PRINCE2-accredited project manager, with 13 years of experience from managing a wide range of software-engineering projects, working with both commercial and academic partners. I have worked at EPCC for 15 years, though during 2012--2015 I was on secondment to the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Perth, Western Australia, where I held the position of Deputy Director and Head of Supercomputing.
Job Titles:
- Director of Data Services
Dr Jano van Hemert, FRSE is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Senior Member of IEEE. He has worked in several universities and companies where he always collaborated at the interface of academia and industry. His main interest is in processing data to distil information into the knowledge required to drive positive impact.
From 2022 to 2023, Dr van Hemert was an Applied Research Manager at the Amazon Development Centre Scotland in Edinburgh. From 2010 to 2022, he directed the research at Optos-a medical device company-where his team commercialised many novel hardware and software features for retinal imaging. From 2010 to 2023, he was an Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh in recognition of his leadership in the research programme of the UK National e-Science Centre from 2006 to 2010, which was supported by a prestigious EPSRC Platform Grant. Before 2006, he held research associate and fellow posts at the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science of the Netherlands, The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and the Vienna University of Technology. From 2005 until 2011 he was a visiting researcher at the Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh of the UK's Medical Research Council.
In 2022, Dr van Hemert was recognised as an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributor. In 2018, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2013, he was elevated to Senior Member of the IEEE. He obtained an MSc in computer science (1998) and a PhD in mathematics and physical sciences (2002) from Leiden University, The Netherlands.
I graduated from the University of Leeds in 2012 with a Integrated B.Sc. and M.Phys. in Theoretical Physics, and followed this up with a Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry. Following a stint as a post-doctoral research assistant, I found my way into EPCC in 2019.
Job Titles:
- in 2022 As a Teaching Fellow
Role
Teaching Fellow
Ludovic joined EPCC in 2022 as a teaching fellow, where he is part of the teaching team for both on-campus and online versions of the MSc in High-Performance Computing and MSc in High-Performance Computing with Data Science, being also the course organiser for the "Advanced Message-Passing Programming" module and academic cohort lead.
Role
Software Architect
I joined EPCC in 1995 as a training and education officer. Since then I have been involved in many academic and commercial projects at EPCC. I did a BSc in Mathematical Physics at Edinburgh, a Part Three at Cambridge and finally a Ph.D. at Cardiff. I am a PRINCE2 practitioner (since Dec 2014) and I am a STEM ambassador.
Role
Senior Research Fellow
I have been working at EPCC since 1998, mainly on the academic and HPC side of the Centre. Previously, I worked at the UK Met Office, and at the University of Manchester, where I also studied for a PhD in parallel numerical algorithms.
Role
Senior Research Fellow
I am interested in the role that novel hardware can play in future supercomputers, and am specifically motivated by the grand-challenge of how we can ensure scientific programmers are able to effectively exploit such technologies without extensive hardware/architecture expertise. My research combines novel algorithmic techniques for this new hardware, programming language & library design, and compilers. I am course organiser for the in-person and online Parallel Design Patterns MSc module and also supervise PhD students.
In 2024 I will be undertaking a Royal Society of Edinburgh personal research fellowship exploring novel hardware for greener supercomputing.
Role
Chancellor's Fellow
I joined EPCC in March 2018 after completing my PhD in Physics at Heriot-Watt University. During my PhD I developed software for calculating the stationary state of dissipative many-body quantum systems using matrix product states. Since joining EPCC, my work has mainly focused on programming models for heterogeneous exascale computing, particularly through my involvement in the INTERTWinE and EPiGRAM-HS Horizon 2020 projects.
Role
Architect
I joined EPCC in November 2019 working on the ASiMoV project to develop the capability to simulate a full gas-turbine engine during operation. Prior to this I completed a PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London developing a fully-coupled solver for the two-fluid model of multiphase flows, followed by two post-doctoral positions in the aeronautics department funded through the ARCHER eCSE programme to extend the Incompact3d (now Xcompact3d) CFD code.
I am currently the Principal Architect within the EPCC Applications Group. Most of my time is spent supporting the National HPC services run by EPCC. This includes research into Exascale computing and developing the SAFE administration and accounting software.
I graduated from New College Oxford in Physics, in the summer of 1987. And completed my PhD (also in Physics) at Edinburgh University in 1992. I have been heavily involved with parallel computing since I arrived in Edinburgh in 1987, both in the Physics Department and later in EPCC.
Role
Architect
I joined EPCC in 2018 and work on a variety of projects, often health-related. My focus is on software engineering, in particular related to web applications and infrastructure automation. I'm also involved in teaching and organising courses for our MSc programmes.
Job Titles:
- Systems Specialist - Systems Administrator
Role
Programme Manager
I returned to EPCC to join the User Support and Liaison team for ARCHER in May 2014. I had previously worked within the Systems Support Team with a particular focus on HPC Systems
Job Titles:
- Systems Specialist - Senior Systems Administrator
I joined EPCC in June 1998 as an Applications Consultant, and I now work as a Group Manager.
I am currently involved in the following projects and activities:
EIDF: The Edinburgh International Data Facility (Data Scientific Computing Service Area Manager).
The Smart Data Foundry: Liaison for the provision of their Safe Haven.
NatWest Group/RBS: Project Leader in various projects since 2014.
RAMP: Rapid Assistance in Modelling the Pandemic and its Quantifying and explaining epidemiological model uncertainty extension.
SAFE: Service Administration from EPCC (Project Leader).
UNICEF: Data for Children Collaborative with UNICEF (Delivery Support Board member).
In the past I have led (or led EPCC's involvement in) the following projects:
RiboViz: Understanding protein synthesis via analysis of ribosome profiling data.
CodeOpt Scotland: work with Intel on Optos and Illuminate code optimisation.
AAAI: National Authentication, Authorisation and Accounting Infrastructure pathfinder project.
NeSS: Listening to the Future: Next Generation Sound Synthesis through Simulation.
Fed4FIRE: Service testbeds for Future Internet Research and Experimentation.
EUDAT2020: European data infrastructure (User Documentation and Training Material).
EUDAT: European data infrastructure (User Documentation).
Auditory: Using HPC to understand human hearing.
ECO2Clouds: Experimental Awareness of CO2 in Federated Cloud Sourcing.
BonFIRE: Testbeds for Internet of Services Experimentation.
TEXTvre: Virtual Research Environment for textual studies
eComploids: The Soft Matter Data Forum
Synthesis: Music composition using simulation-based sound synthesis
BEinGRID: Business Experiments in Grid
EGEE-NPM: Network Performance Monitoring for the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project
Oncology: Genome Scan To Identify Common Low Penetrance Alleles Contributing to Colorectal Cancer Aetiology
EGEE-JRA4: Network Services Development activity for the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project
PGPGrid: The Peppers Ghost Productions Grid Project
3D-Pathology: A real time system for quantitative diagnostic pathology and visualisation in 3D
Autoscreen: automation of cervical cancer screening.
GridWeaver: investigation of the problem of automating the configuration and management of Grid computing fabrics.
Elektrobit: modelling of 3G mobile telephony networks.
Seesaw: performance optimisation of sawmills through the use of visual inspection.
ITBase: development of a tool for courseware maintenance.
Even longer ago, I worked as a developer on the following projects:
Intersim: development of a tool for the simulation of differentiated services.
Colombo: development of a tool for the programming and seamless parallel execution of CA models.
I graduated in 1994 from the University of Crete with a BSc in Mathematics. I then moved on to Edinburgh University and graduated in 1995 with an MSc in Computer Science, following the "Parallel Systems" course theme.
My first employment was at Heriot-Watt University, where I worked as a Research Associate in the Department of Computing and Electrical Engineering. In September 1996 I enlisted in the Hellenic Navy for my compulsory, 21-month National Service.
In my free time I like watching football and I am also keen on gardening.
Job Titles:
- Project Officer - Software Sustainability Institute
Role
Project Officer - Software Sustainability Institute
Kathleen joined EPCC and the Software Sustainability Institute in February 2023 as Project Officer. Her previous role was in the Edinburgh Research Office Post Award Team where she worked for 4 years as a Research Grants Administrator. Kathleen gained a BSc Majoring in Accountancy from the University of Paisley in 1997 and her career in finance covers public, private and voluntary sectors.
Job Titles:
- SSI Communications Manager
Role
SSI Communications Manager
Based in Edinburgh, Selina joined the Software Sustainability Institute in 2016 as the Software Sustainability Institute Communications Officer.
Selina holds a BA in English Arts from UNAM (Mexico) and an MSc in Comparative Literature from the University of Edinburgh. She has previously worked for the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics and the School of Engineering, as well as in the publishing sector in Mexico and Scotland.
She is also a freelance translator and editor, and volunteers as Spanish Social Media Manager and Reviewer at the literary translation journal, Asymptote.
Role
Director of HPC Systems
I joined EPCC in February 2018, after 4 years as Head of IT for the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. Previously, among other roles, I was Service Delivery Manager in Lothian and Borders Police/Police Scotland for a number of years, managing a team of 25+ and had responsibility for delivering all IT systems and Infrastructure to support 24/7/365 operational policing.
Job Titles:
- Professor of Research Software Policy & Practice and Director, Software Sustainability Institute
Role
Professor of Research Software Policy & Practice and Director, Software Sustainability Institute
I am the PI and founding Director of the Software Sustainability Institute, a national facility for research software.
Role
Project Manager
I joined EPCC in 2013 as an Application developer right after finishing EPCC's MSc in High Performance Computing. I also have an MPhys in Mathematical Physics from the University of Edinburgh.