Author

Mark Wilkinson is the national director of the STFC DiRAC HPC Facility (www.dirac.ac.uk), which provides high performance computing resources for the theoretical astrophysics, particle physics, cosmology and nuclear physics communities in the UK. He is a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Leicester, specializing in the study of dark matter in galaxies using a combination of observations, theoretical models and machine learning. He has published almost 100 peer-reviewed papers and has more than 15,000 citations.