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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.

- The first keynote is by Sven Bodo Scholz who starts from the observation that tuning makes code (quality) worse and unfit for modern, heterogeneous hardware. And therefore should be done by compilers where possible. But are our compilers and programming languages fit for purpose?
- Totally full room for the first tutorial of the HPC Day run by friends of Nvidia on AI model upscaling.
- Great to be back in Munich for the ExaHyPE anniversary workshop. Great talk by Han @icc-durham.bsky.social on ExaGRyPE.
- Citing a NWOBHM song from 1983: The Eagle Has Landed https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3799887 All if open access, all is worth reading!
- Congratulations: https://www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/latest-news/2026/06/durham-expert-recognised-among-global-leaders-in-scientific-computing/ And nice to see the HPC Days featured on there as well. One week to go ...