I’m a Senior Lecturer at Lincoln University, New Zealand in the Department of Applied Compuing. Originally from the UK, I did my Bsc(Hons) and PhD at Durham University in Computer Science. During my PhD I got involved in eScience projects in the UK and looked at developing Service Oriented Visualisation Pipelines for Scientific Visualisation.
In New Zealand I have been heavily involved in the BeSTGRID project and also with the National eScience Infrastructure (NeSI). At Lincoln I teach Software Engineering and am also the eResearch Champion for the University encouraging other researchers to make use of HPC and Distributed Computing. I am particularly interested in the “on ramp” for researchers making the transition to HPC from environments like R and Matlab.