Servicedesk
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CSE
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eCSE
Training
Outreach
Quality & Feedback
Web & Docs
Coordination
All Staff

Dr Rui Apóstolo
Project Manager
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Servicedesk
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CSE
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Member of the ARCHER2 Service Desk team, CSE in-depth user support, and occasional training course helper.
Code contact for LAMMPS, GROMACS, VMD, and consortium contact for HECBioSim.
Watches way too many movies.



Dr Alexei Borissov
Applications Consultant
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CSE
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I'm involved with technical assessments and technical evaluation reviews, and with the training team.

Eleanor Broadway
Applications Consultant
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Servicedesk
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CSE
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Training
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Outreach
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Member of the CSE team providing in-depth user support and member of the ARCHER2 Service Desk team. Also a technical assessment reviewer, course helper and outreach team member.

Linnea Gilius
Applications Developer
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Servicedesk
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CSE
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Linnea is a member of the CSE team and the ARCHER2 service desk team. She joined EPCC in 2024 after completing an MSc in High Performance Computing at the University of Edinburgh.



Jaffery Irudayasamy
Applications Developer
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Servicedesk
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CSE
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Training
]
I joined EPCC in November 2023 as an Applications Developer after completing my MSc in HPC with Data Science at the University of Edinburgh. I was also a part of the winning ISC Student Cluster Competition team, TeamEPCC 2023. To continue my interests in HPC developed through the MSc and the competition, I joined EPCC, where I'm involved in various industry and research work. In my spare time, I enjoy cooking and playing MOBA games.

Dr Chris Johnson
Project Manager / eCSE function lead
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CSE
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eCSE
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User Admin
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Chris is the function lead for the ARCHER2 eCSE programme. He is also member of the User Administration and CSE teams and a Technical Assessment reviewer.

Dr Sebastien Lemaire
Applications Consultant
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Servicedesk
,
CSE
]
Member of the ARCHER2 Service Desk team, CSE.

Dr William Lucas
Applications Consultant
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Servicedesk
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CSE
,
Training
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Member of the ARCHER2 service desk and CSE teams, providing in-depth support and training. I also work on Cirrus and teach on EPCC’s MSc. I love Raspberry Pis!




Dr James Richings
Member of the ARCHER2 CSE teams, providing in-depth support and training. Currently working as part of the Quantum software lab on projects related to the simulation of quantum computers, including how quantum computation can have impact on real world problems like detecting fraud in banking transactions.

Dr Juan Rodriguez-Herrera
Training function lead
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Servicedesk
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CSE
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Training
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Juan is the ARCHER2 Training function lead. His main role is tailoring and delivering a training programme that addresses the needs of all users and enables them to make efficient use of the ARCHER2 system. He's also a member of the Service Desk.

Dr Alan Simpson
Service Director for the SP service. Service Director for the CSE service
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CSE
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Coordination
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Alan joined EPCC after completing a PhD in Computational Physics and has taken leading roles in national HPC services since 1994. As ARCHER2 Service Director, he has overall responsibility for delivery of the service to users.

Dr Lorna Smith
Deputy Director for the CSE service. Web and Documentation function lead. Outreach function lead
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CSE
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eCSE
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Outreach
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Web & Docs
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Quality & Feedback
,
Coordination
]
As the CSE Service deputy director, I tend to be involved in most aspects of the service delivery. However I have a particular role within the eCSE programme, around documentation, outreach and understanding and monitoring emissions as we look towards Net Zero services. Out with work you can find me in my garden or enjoying the chaos of being a Beaver Scout leader.

Dr Kevin Stratford
Senior Research Fellow
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Servicedesk
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CSE
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Training
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I have a background in computational physics and have ongoing interests in atomistic simulation and various flavours of fluid dynamics. I help out with the helpdesk, and also lead courses on Fortran, and GPU computing.

Dr Andrew Turner
CSE Architect
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Servicedesk
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User Admin
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CSE
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Training
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Web & Docs
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My main role as CSE Architect in the ARCHER2 service is to try to make the service as useful as possible for researchers. I help the team prioritise work to improve the service and try to anticipate future requirements for researchers on ARCHER2. I strongly believe that we can achieve more in research by working together openly in a collegial way and so think that having strong links between the ARCHER2 service and the wider community are vital; and where the critical mass of the ARCHER2 service can have a large impact. To help achieve this I try to maintain strong links with various organisations, such as the Society of Research Software Engineering, the UK HPC-SIG, DiRAC, The Carpentries and various user communities. In my spare time, I can be generally be found out in the countryside somewhere: either under it (caving), over it (bikepacking) or though it (wild swimming).

Dr Chris Wood
Project Manager
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Training
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CSE
,
Outreach
]
Since joining EPCC in 2018, I’ve been involved in a number of eCSE projects, with a particular interest in supporting users from the environmental and life sciences domains. I’m a course organiser on the MSc that we run, as well as being involved in lecturing on a range of other MSc modules and ARCHER2 training courses, and have recently been awarded a NERC training grant. I also help manage aspects of the ARCHER2 outreach programme, to help explain to the public why ARCHER2 is so important.