RSE Directory

A guide to the skills, knowledge and software expertise of the Research Software Engineers at each of the N8 Universities.

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Lancaster University

Name	E-mail	Job title	Skills

Alison Hale	a.c.hale@lancaster.ac.uk	Research Fellow	R; MATLAB; JavaScript; Maple

Newcastle University

Name	E-mail	Job Title	Skills

Kate Court	kate.court@ncl.ac.uk	Research Software Engineer	Java, database management

Fiona Galston	fiona.galston@newcastle.ac.uk	Research Software Engineer	JavaScript; Angular; Web; C#;

David Herbert	david.herbert2@newcastle.ac.uk	Research Software Engineer	Java, Geospatial Web, Python, PHP, Unix/Linux, GIS, C/C++

Mike Simpson	mike.simpson@ncl.ac.uk	Research Software Engineer	Python; Java; C++; Blender; Visualisation; Programming; Problem Solving; Debugging; Version Control; 3D Graphics;

Jannetta Steyn	jannetta.steyn@newcastle.ac.uk	Senior Research Associate	Java, Python, R, MatLab, Bash, HPC

Mark Turner	mark.turner@ncl.ac.uk	Head of Research Software Engineering	JavaScript, UI/UX, Web Technologies, Containers, Cloud, Java, Python

University of Leeds

Name	E-mail	Job Title	Skills

Oliver Clark	O.K.Clark@leeds.ac.uk	Research Software Engineer	Python; Perl; C/C++; SVN; Git; Postgres; MySQL

Alistair Curd	a.curd@leeds.ac.uk	Research Fellow	Python, R

John Hodrien	J.H.Hodrien@leeds.ac.uk	Research Software Engineer	Linux;HPC

Vladimir Kisil	kisilv@maths.leeds.ac.uk	Reader	C++, Python

Joanna Leng	j.leng@leeds.ac.uk	Senior RSE Fellow	Visualization, HPC, Image Analysis

University of Liverpool

Name	E-mail	Job Title	Skills

Cliff Addison	c.addison@liverpool.ac.uk	Manager, Advanced Research Computing	machine learning; research compute architecture design; parallel algorithm design

Cameron Hargreaves	C.J.Hargreaves@Liverpool.ac.uk	PhD Student	Python; HPC; C; Topological Data Analysis; Deep Learning; Machine Learning; Linear algebra; Unix systems; Data mining; Web technologies

Xiaowei Huang	Xiaowei.huang@liverpool.ac.uk	Lecturer / Assistant Professor	Python; Haskell; Tensorflow

Phillip Maffettone	phillip.maffettone@liverpool.ac.uk	Research associate	Python; FORTRAN; MATLAB

Ian Smith	i.c.smith@liverpool.ac.uk	Principal Analyst/Programmer	C/C++, FORTRAN, Python, Perl, (some) R, (some) Java, Powershell, PHP, UNIX shell

Bryan Williams	bryan@liverpool.ac.uk	PDRA	MATLAB; Python; C++; Java

Jonathan Willitts	jonathan.willitts@liverpool.ac.uk	Software Engineer	Python; Version Control; Git; SVN; HPC; Bash; Linux; Testing; Django; Vagrant; VBA; PyQt; QGIS; Platform LSF; EnginFrame; Java; Scripting; Databases; Software Development

University of Manchester

Name	E-mail	Job Title	Skills

Patricia Barnby	patricia.barnby@manchester.ac.uk	Research Software Engineer	Java; C#; Mobile

Ian Cottam	ian.cottam@manchester.ac.uk	Senior Research Software Engineer

Ian Hinder	ian.hinder@manchester.ac.uk	Research Software Engineer	Numerical methods; Partial differential equation; Automatic programming; Mathematical model; Parallel computing; HPC; C (programming language); C++; Wolfram Mathematica; Python; Bash (Unix shell); Linux; Mac OS; Git; Docker (software); Jenkins (software); libvirt; MPI; OpenMP; VisIt; Optimization; Version control; Reproducibility; Virtualization; Software testing; Correctness testing; Visualization; Middleware


Andrew Jerrison	andrew.jerrison@manchester.ac.uk	Research Software Engineer	C#;Javascript;web;mobile app;databases

Douglas Lowe	douglas.lowe@manchester.ac.uk	Research Software Engineer	Fortran; Python; Shell Scripting; NCL; Version Control

Martin Turner	martin.turner@manchester.ac.uk	Business Relationship Manager for Research IT

University of Sheffield

Name	E-mail	Job Title	Skills
Will Furnass	w.furnass@sheffield.ac.uk	Senior Research Software Engineer; acting group lead	Python, Java, bash, SQL, Ansible, Puppet, Docker, Vagrant, systems administration

Mozhgan Kabri Chimeh	m.kabiri-chimeh@sheffield.ac.uk	Research Associate/Research Software Engineer	C/C++; Java; parallel programming languages (CUDA, OpenMP); Git; Bash

University of York

Name	E-mail	Job Title	Skills

Peter Byrne	peter.byrne@york.ac.uk	Research Software Engineer	Python; Fortran; Bash; Parallel; HPC

Peter Hill	peter.hill@york.ac.uk	Associate Research Software Engineer	C++; Fortran; Python; Testing; Version Control; Parallel; HPC

Killian Murphy	killian.murphy@york.ac.uk	Associate Research Software Engineer	Python; C; Embedded Systems; HPC; Linux; Electronic Engineering

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