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I’m a professor in Scientific Computing and High Performance Computing at Durham University where I work at the Department of Computer Science. I head the Scientific Computing research group and I serve as director of Durham University’s Institute for Data Science.
Via the top menu, you can navigate to sites about my research software and links to some projects I am involved with. You also find some posters and videos as well as supplemental information about some books I have published. Finally, there is a short CV and a brief description of my research philosophy.

- I think I wrote about this before, but a lot interesting recordings from the Durham #HPCDays2026 are now available at www.youtube.com/@Durham_HPC. Besides that, you find a lot of our C++ training there as a latest update! https://www.youtube.com/@Durham_HPC
- I travelled to WCCM in Munich today and the first talk I attended was on the impact of climate change on historic masonry. It presented studies from Durham Castle. The world is small ...
- This is an interesting paper to read: arxiv.org/pdf/2607.04881 It addresses a fundamental issue we have in many octree-based codes: The number of leaves explodes as we go down the hierarchy even though we might not need isotropic refinement. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.04881
- There's a great article on the @cake-dri.bsky.social webpage (it is not written by us!) summarising some impressions from the #HPCDays in Durham this year. What a great show, what a great community. https://www.cake.ac.uk/news/k8s-cake-at-dhpcd/
- The Quartl is a TUM-based newsletter. Most of the current edition is in German, but page 24 covers our #ExaHyPE workshop and is in English: https://www.cs.cit.tum.de/sccs/weiterfuehrende-informationen/quartl/