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Professor Jarvis is a computational scientist, whose research has been employed by industry and national laboratories to address scientific problems, ranging from simulating fusion energy reactions to the design of efficient turbofan jet engines. He is a former Royal Society Industry Fellow, Director of an EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre, and non-Executive Director of the Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence.

Professor Jarvis studied at London, Oxford and Durham Universities before taking his first Lectureship at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory. After a short secondment to Microsoft Research in Cambridge, he joined the University of Warwick, rising to Professor in 2009. From 2013 to 2018 he was Head of the Department of Computer Science at Warwick. In 2018 he was appointed to the role of Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research).

Professor Jarvis has held three independent Fellowships in which capacity he has provided independent, evidence-based scientific and technical advice to industry and government. In 2013, work with the US National Laboratories led to an R&D Top 100 Award, widely recognized as an ‘Oscar of Innovation’.

At the University of Birmingham he is Head of one of the five academic Colleges. Engineering and Physical Sciences comprises seven schools and is one of the largest groupings of engineers and physical scientists in Europe.