Grenville Lister
National Centre for Atmospheric Science
Chair (NERC-UKRI User Rep 1)
Grenville heads up the National Centre for Atmospheric Science Computational Modelling Services group (NCAS-CMS) that provides support for Numerical Weather Prediction, Climate and Earth System simulation for the uk.ac community. His interests are wide ranging, from next generation models and computational infrastructure to data management and analysis technology.
Lucy Whalley
Northumbria University
EPSRC-UKRI User Rep 1
Lucy is an Assistant Professor at Northumbria University and an Associate Editor at the Journal of Open Source Software. She uses solid state physics, quantum chemistry and supercomputers to explore materials at the atomic scale. Lucy is also interested in how we can improve research practice in the computational sciences, with a focus on working openly and software publishing. Outside of work Lucy plays music and hangs out with her family.
Carmene Domene
Univesity of Bath
EPSRC-UKRI User Rep 2
Carmen Domene is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Bath. She is a computational chemist and her research interests lie in the field of computer simulations of biological systems.
Dr Diana Suleimenova
Brunel University London
EPSRC-UKRI User Rep 3
Dr Diana Suleimenova is a Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science at Brunel University of London. Her research concentrates on agent-based modelling, forced displacement prediction, and verification, validation and uncertainty quantification (VVUQ) of multiscale applications deployed on emerging exascale platforms. Her work also led to a range of international collaborations on developing and analysing the sensitivities of new forced displacement models. She is co-Chair of the Multiscale Modelling and Simulation workshop and a Knowledge Exchange coordinator for the Software Environment for Actionable and VVUQ-evaluated Applications (SEAVEA), which aims to develop an exascale-ready toolkit for verification, validation and uncertainty quantification techniques in application to various domains.
Sylvain Laizet
Imperial College London
EPSRC-UKRI User Rep 4
Sylvain Laizet is a professor in the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London (ICL). He leads the UK Turbulence Consortium and the Collaborative Computational Project in Turbulence. He is an expert in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) applied to turbulence. He is the main developer of Xcompact3d, an open-source framework of flow solvers dedicated to the study of turbulent flows on supercomputers.
Iain Smith
University of Oxford
EPSRC-UKRI User Rep 5
Wei Wang
STFC Daresbury Laboratory
EPSRC-UKRI User Rep 6
Dr. Wei Wang is a Senior Computational Scientist in the Scientific Computing Department at Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), UKRI. She is the STFC CoSeC Project Lead for the Collaborative Computational Project in Nuclear Thermal Hydraulics (CCP-NTH). Specializing in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), high-performance computing (HPC), and nuclear thermal hydraulics (NTH), her expertise is integral to modernizing NTH simulation tools in heterogeneous computing systems. She is also the primary developer of CHAPSim, a high-fidelity CFD code developed to simulation nuclear thermal hydraulics. Outside of work, Wei enjoys hiking and exploring nature.
Oleksandr Zhdanov
University of Glasgow
EPSRC-UKRI User Rep 7
Oleksandr did a PhD in plant biomechanics studying wind influence on plants. Since then, he worked at the University of Glasgow as research assistant and research associate investigating secondary currents in turbulent flows over heterogeneous surfaces using direct numerical simulations. His research interests range from turbulent flows over complex surfaces to bluff body aerodynamics and plant biomechanics. Outside of work, he enjoys exploring nature and running.
Guglielmo Vivarelli
Imperial College London
EPSRC-UKRI User Rep 8
Guglielmo is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Aeronautics Department at Imperial College London.
He is currently working on a project in partnership with Rolls-Royce to develop the open-source spectral/h-p element for turbomachinery applications.
D. Flemming Hansen
University College London
EPSRC-UKRI User Rep 9
Marion Weinzierl
University of Cambridge
EPSRC-UKRI User Rep 10
Marion is a Senior Research Software Engineer at the Institute of Computing for Climate Science (ICCS), University of Cambridge.
Marion has a degree (Dipl.-Inf.) in Media Informatics and a doctoral degree (Dr.rer.nat.) in Scientific Computing. Before becoming a Research Software Engineer (RSE), she did a postdoc in Solar Physics and Space Weather Prediction, and worked as Computational Scientist at an x-ray technology start-up. Her first RSE position was in Advanced Research Computing at Durham University, where she also took on the role as Research Software Engineering Theme Lead at the N8 Centre of Excellence for Computationally Intensive Research (N8 CIR). At N8 CIR, she led the RSE community and RSE leaders network, chaired the user group of the regional supercomputer Bede, co-lead the Bede support group, and co-founded and co-led the N8 CIR Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) chapter.
She joined the RSE team at ICCS in 2023.
John Brodholt
University College London
NERC-UKRI User Rep 2
Dave Munday
British Antarctic Survey
NERC-UKRI User Rep 3
Dave is a physical oceanographer and numerical modeller at the British Antarctic Survey. He studied Ocean Sciences at the University of Southampton and Weather, Climate & Modelling at the University of Reading. Dave’s PhD is in the dynamics of western boundary currents and their flow separation. He now works predominately on the Southern Ocean and Antarctic Circumpolar Current, specialising in the use of idealised numerical models to understand their circulation and dynamics. He has a long standing interest in palaeocean circulation and carbon cycling over geological timescales due to the tectonic rearrangement of continents and the opening of ocean gateways, e.g. Drake Passage or Tasman Seaway.
Douglas Shanks
HPE *
Hardware CoE Representative (By invitation)
My current role is as a Senior HPC application analyst at Hewlett Packard Enterprise working as part of the ARCHER2 centre of excellence.
My professional interests are broadly in High Performance Computing, Computational Science, and Performance Benchmarking. My academic background is in Applied Mathematics (PhD University of Bath). Outside of work my main interests are music and staying active outdoors (cricket and hill walking).
Harvey Richardson
HPE *
Hardware CoE Representative (By invitation)
Alan Simpson
EPCC *
SP representative (By invitation)
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.
Lorna Smith
EPCC *
CSE representative (By invitation)
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 Andrew Turner
EPCC *
CSE representative (By invitation)
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 Luke Davis
EPSRC-UKRI *
EPSRC-UKRI Representative
Dr Luke Davis is Joint Head of Research Infrastructure at EPSRC-UKRI, where he leads a team of colleagues developing and delivering strategy for the UK research base in Digital Research Infrastructure as well as the cross-cutting priorities of People (e.g. RTPs) and Data. This involves working closely and developing relationships with Academia, Government and Policy Makers and Industry. He is the Senior User for ARCHER2, programme lead of the £48m ExCALIBUR (Exascale Computing Algorithms for the Benefit of UK Research) Programme which is funding research into software and skills to ensure the UK is ready for the advent of accelerated computer hardware, and he is the representative of EPSRC on the UKRI Digital Research Infrastructure Committee.
Christian Oganbule
UKRI - EPSRC *
ARCHER2 portfolio manager
Dr Richard Bailey
UKRI - EPSRC *
ARCHER2 contract manager, ARCHER2 portfolio manager
Richard Bailey is Senior Portfolio Manager in the Research Infrastructure Theme at EPSRC-UKRI. His main responsibility is the large-scale compute portfolio, including the UK’s national supercomputer ARCHER2.
After receiving a PhD in instrumentation & analytical science from UMIST and working at the Loss Prevention Council for a few years, he has spent much of his career at EPSRC in roles ranging across the Research Infrastructure, Engineering, Manufacturing, Infrastructure & Environment, Chemistry, eScience, Transformative Research and Digital Economy Themes.
Andrea Sharpe
NERC-UKRI *
NERC-UKRI Representative 1
Andrew Adams
NERC-UKRI *
NERC-UKRI Representative 2
- Non-voting member