Dr Marion Weinzierl

Marion is a Principal Research Software Engineer at the Institute of Computing for Climate Science (ICCS), University of Cambridge.

Marion has a degree (Dipl.-Inf.) in Media Informatics from Ulm University, and a doctoral degree (Dr.rer.nat.) in Scientific Computing from Technische Universität München. Before becoming a Research Software Engineer (RSE), she did a postdoc in Solar Physics and Space Weather Prediction at Durham University, 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 (N8 CIR). At N8 CIR, she led the RSE community and RSE leaders network, chaired the user group of the regional supercomputer Bede, co-led the Bede support group, and co-founded the N8 CIR Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) chapter.

She joined the RSE team at ICCS in Cambridge in 2023. From April to September 2024, she was one of two Interim Engineering Leads leading the team. In April 2025, she won the "UKRI DRI: Championing knowledge exchange for UK computational science" grant, as co-lead of the Computational Abilities Knowledge Exchange (CAKE) project. She became Principal RSE at ICCS in January 2026, with a focus on team, collaborations and community.