Author

Sadaf Alam is director of strategy and academia in the Advanced Computing Research Centre at the University of Bristol, UK where she is responsible for digital transformation for research computing and data assets management services. She studied computer science at the University of Edinburgh, where she received her PhD in 2004. From 2004-09 Dr Alam was a computer scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA. She then moved to CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre) where she was, most recently, the chief technology officer. She was chief architect for co-designed, innovative flagship supercomputing and MeteoSwiss operational weather forecasting platforms at CSCS during her tenure from 2009-2022. She is a founding member of the Swiss Chapter of Women in HPC.