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Directorship

 

Professor Emily Shuckburgh, OBE

Director

Professor of Environmental Data Science, University of Cambridge

Director of Cambridge Zero

Fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge

At the University of Cambridge Emily is Director of the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training on the Application of AI to the study of Environmental Risks (AI4ER), Academic Director of the Institute of Computing for Climate Science, and co-Director of the Centre for Landscape Regeneration. She worked for more than a decade at the British Antarctic Survey where her work included leading a UK national research programme on the Southern Ocean and its role in climate. Prior to that she undertook research at École Normale Supérieure in Paris and at MIT. She has also acted as an advisor on climate to the UK Government in various capacities, including as a Friend of COP26.

See full biography here

Professor Colm-cille P. Caulfield

Co-director (Science)

Professor of Environmental and Industrial Fluid Dynamics, Head of Department of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge

Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge

Professor Caulfield is interested in working as part of such diverse teams to study various fluid flows in the environment, particularly in cases where density differences play a dynamical role. Of course, density differences, (due to temperature or composition variation) are ubiquitous in the environment. Understanding the fundamental properties of the associated fluid dynamics is key to ensuring sustainable human activity. To name just three important examples, understanding how density differences affect fluid flows can allow strategies to be developed to model the climate system, to deal with the dispersion of pollutants, or to minimise energy consumption within buildings.

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Chris Edsall

Co-director (Research software engineering)

Head of Research Software Engineering at Research Computing Services, University of Cambridge

Bye-fellow at Queens' College, Cambridge

Chris is a co-director of the Institute of Computing for Climate Science with a focus on software engineering. Within Cambridge University he is the Head of Research Software Engineering in Research Computing Services, acting Principal Software Engineer in the Cambridge Open Zettascale Lab and is a bye-fellow of Queens’ College.

E-mail: cje57@cam.ac.uk

Dr Dominic Orchard

Co-director (Computer science)

Academic in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge

Senior Lecturer in Programming Languages and Systems group at the School of Computing, University of Kent

Bye-fellow at Queens' College, Cambridge

Dominic is a computer scientist with a broad background in both the theory and practice of programming. He co-directs the Institute of Computing for Climate Science at the University of Cambridge and also holds a Senior Lecturer position in the Programming Languages and Systems group at the School of Computing, University of Kent.

See full biography here

E-mail: dao29@cam.ac.uk

Marla Fuchs

Executive Programme Director

Bye-fellow at Queens' College, Cambridge

Marla studied mechanical engineering at Rensselaer, in New York and went on to complete an MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development at the University of Cambridge. She has worked in a variety of industries including nuclear fuels, inkjet technology, and carbon consultancy. She has been leading international programmes within higher education for the last 10 years with a focus on sustainability.

E-mail: mf372@cam.ac.uk

Researchers

Dr Laura Cimoli

Early Career Advanced Fellow

Laura s a physical oceanographer interested in ocean dynamics and their role in the climate system. Her research focuses on deep and abyssal ocean circulation and how it contributes to the sequestration and redistribution of tracers, such as anthropogenic heat and carbon. She mostly employs global hydrographic data and inverse methods to investigate the (poorly observed and modelled) deep ocean and its decadal variability.

E-mail: lc929@cam.ac.uk

Dr Henry Moss

Early Career Advanced Fellow

Henry is a machine learning researcher specialising in Bayesian methods. His main interest is in applications where it is important to understand model uncertainty, i.e for climate model calibration or automatic equation discovery.

E-mail: hm493@cam.ac.uk

Roly Perera

Early Career Advanced Fellow

Senior Research Associate, Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge

Research Fellow, Programming Languages Research Group, School of Computer Science, University of Bristol

Roly is an ICCS Research Fellow in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge. Roly’s research interests are in new programming language foundations for transparent and explorable digital media. A scientific paper should allow a reviewer to drill into a bar chart to see the underlying distribution, tweak model parameters, or remove an outlier from the dataset to see how the results would be affected, all within the context of the paper. Roly’s research focuses on tools and techniques that expose, to readers as well as authors, this fine-grained structure. This will make it possible to create digital media which reveal how parts of visualisations relate to data and code

Personal Website

E-mail: roly.perera@cl.cam.ac.uk 

Research Software Engineers

Dr Kacper Kornet

Senior Research Software Engineer

E-mail: kk562@cam.ac.uk

Dr Tom Meltzer

Senior Research Software Engineer

Tom is a Research Software Engineer with a background in atomic and molecular physics. He has been developing scientific code for over 10 years and is particularly interested in high performance computing.

GitHub , LinkedIn

Learn more about me here

Email: tdm39@cam.ac.uk

Dr Marion Weinzierl

Senior Research Software Engineer

Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and Associated Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Marion has a degree in Media Informatics and a PhD in Scientific Computing. Before becoming a Research Software Engineer, she did a postdoc in Solar Physics and Space Weather Prediction, and worked as Computational Scientist at an x-ray technology start-up. Her first RSE position was in Advanced Research Computing at Durham University, where she also took on the role as Research Software Engineering Theme Lead at the N8 Centre of Excellence for Computationally Intensive Research. She joined the team at ICCS in 2023

Orchid , LinkedIn

Learn more about me here

E-mail: mw925@cam.ac.uk

Dr Jack Atkinson

Senior Research Software Engineer

Research Associate at Peterhouse College, Cambridge

Postdoctoral Research Associate at Queens' College, Cambridge

Jack previously worked as a researcher in the fields of fluid mechanics, atmospheric modelling, volcanology, and space weather at the University of Cambridge and the British Antarctic Survey. His research interests lie mainly in geophysical fluid dynamics, numerical modelling, and computing, though he has also done data analysis and modelling for the sport of archery.

Personal website

Learn more about me here

E-mail: jwa34@cam.ac.uk

Dr Matt Archer

Senior Research Software Engineer

Matthew works on aspects of high performance computing, machine learning and system administration. He has a PhD in Computational Physics from the same university specialising in Computational Solid Mechanics. He has lectured on Deep Generative Models in Tensorflow as part of the Master’s in High Performance Computing at SISSA and is a Certified OneAPI SYCL and OpenMP instructor, delivering training material at Universities around the UK

E-mail: ma595@cam.ac.uk

 

 

Ms. Surbhi Goel

Research Software Engineer

Surbhi’s journey started at the University of Manchester, where she was awarded her degree in Renewable Energy and Clean Technology in 2017. Surbhi has always cared about protecting the environment, and this degree gave her a solid foundation. After graduating, Surbhi worked with several startups, where she created and maintained machine learning models for predicting electricity demand and solar power production. She then went on to complete a Master's in AI for Sustainable Development at University College London (UCL) before joining ICCS as a Research Software Engineer in 2023.

GitHub , LinkedIn

Find out more about me here

Tianzhang Cai

Research Software Engineer

Tianzhang completed his graduate degree in Machine Learning and developed experience in ML engineering and scientific computing after working as a ML Engineer Intern at an AI startup and a Research Engineer in a research project applying ML to improve energy efficiency of mobile networks. He is enthusiastic about leveraging his skills in machine learning and software engineering to advance climate science

Github , LinkedIn

E-mail: tc684@cam.ac.uk

Dr Joe Wallwork

Research Software Engineer

Joe is a Research Software Engineer with a background in numerical and computational methods for geoscientific modelling. Before joining ICCS in 2024, Joe did a PhD and postdoc at Imperial College London and worked as a Scientific Software Engineer at the Met Office. His PhD and postdoc research focussed on mesh adaptation and adjoint methods for finite element coastal ocean modelling.

ORCID , GitHub , LinkedIn

E-mail: jw2423@cam.ac.uk

Amy Pike

Research Software Engineer

Amy studied an MSci in Physical Natural Sciences with a focus on Earth Sciences at Cambridge University. She conducted her final year project at the British Antarctic Survey, which included practical and computational elements. Following university, Amy trained as a maths teacher, then made the switch to working in the software industry. She has four years’ industry experience and joined ICCS from her previous role as a Senior Software Engineer working on the back end of the BBC Sounds App. She has worked in Java, Scala and Python, and has used cloud technologies and github extensively. She lives with her husband and two cats in Essex.

Github

Email: ap766@cam.ac.uk

James Emberton

Research Software Engineer

James is a Research Software Engineer with a background in Aerothermal Engineering. He has worked in gas turbine aerothermal analysis at Rolls-Royce, space thermal engineering at RAL Space and heat exchanger design software development for Reaction Engines

Github , LinkedIn

Email: je484@cam.ac.uk

Isaac Akanho

Research Software Engineer

Isaac studied Computer Science with a specialisation in Artificial Intelligence at university. After graduating, he supported researchers with running their code and software on HPC clusters. He has worked on projects applying machine learning to classification and control tasks using python. He also enjoys delving into the system design of software and applications

E-mail: ia464@cam.ac.uk

Dr Adeleke O. Bankole

Research Software Engineer

Adeleke is an applied mathematician specializing in computational methods for fluid dynamics. His research focuses on the mathematical modeling and numerical approximation of Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). He currently works as a Research Software Engineer at the Institute of Computing for Climate Science (ICCS) at the University of Cambridge. Before this, Adeleke was a Research Associate at the University of Colorado Boulder, contributing to the Department of Energy's Exascale Computing Project. He also worked as a Research Scientist and Graduate Student Lecturer at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Adeleke holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Germany, with degrees in Industrial Mathematics, Mathematical Sciences, and Mathematics.

Github, OrchidLinkedIn

E-mail: ab3191@cam.ac.uk

Operations

Office: Department of Applied Maths & Theoretical Physics Pavilion H, H1.19

Previous Staff Members

Dr Simon Clifford

Former Research Software Engineer - sjc306@cam.ac.uk

Christian Fernandez Perotti

Former Programme Manager - cpf29@cam.ac.uk 

Dr Paul Richmond

Former Senior Research Software Engineer

Engineering Lead

Learn more about Paul here

Dr Sam Oliver

Former Programme Administrator - so389@cam.ac.uk

Jim Denholm

Former Research Software Engineer with ICCS

Aleksandra Higson

Former Communications Associate

LinkedIn

Read about her internship with ICCS

Ben Orchard

Former Research Software Engineer - bhgo2@cam.ac.uk

Learn more about Ben here 

Filipa Goncalves

Former Programme Administrator - fe268@cam.ac.uk 

Lisa Curtis

Former Programme Administrator with ICCS

Giomaria Usai

Summer projects intern working with Dr Laura Cimoli, 2023

Learn more about Giomaria here

Myles Ng

Summer projects intern working with Dr Laura Cimoli, 2023

Learn more about me here

Dr Danny Huang

Former Programme, Communications, and Training Manager

Dr Alexander Smith

Former Research Software Engineer

Learn more about me here

E-mail: as3402@cam.ac.uk

About Us

Computational modelling is key to climate science. But models are becoming increasingly complex as we seek to understand our world in more depth and model it at higher fidelity. The Institute of Computing for Climate Science studies and supports the role of software engineering, computer science, artificial intelligence, and data science within climate science.

The institute comprises a collaboration between Cambridge Zero, the Departments of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (host department of the institute), Computer Science and Technology, and University Information Services at the University of Cambridge.

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