Author

Dr Chris Maynard completed a PhD in Quantum Field theory at Edinburgh University in 1998. Between 1999 and 2005 he continued this research first as a PPARC personal fellow then as a common or garden PDRA, then joining the Edinburgh parallel computing centre (EPCC) . Here Chris ported, optimised and developed scientific and commercial code for High Performance Computers (HPC), engaged into research for methods exploiting such machines and taught aspects of HPC to students on the MSc course. In 2012 Chris joined the Met Office as an expert scientific software engineer, developing the Unified Model and later designing and developing LFRic, a new atmospheric model. Chris now works part-time for the Met Office and part-time as an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Reading.