Biography
Dr Chris Maynard completed a PhD in Quantum Field theory at Edinburgh University in 1998. Between 1999 and 2005 he continued this research as a PPARC personal fellow and PDRA. He joined the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) in 2005 . Here Chris ported, optimized and developed scientific and commercial code for High Performance Computers (HPC), engaged into research for methods exploiting such machines and taught aspects of HPC to students on the MSc course. In 2012 Chris joined the Met Office as an expert scientific software engineer, developing the Unified Model and later designing and developing LFRic, a new atmospheric model. He is now a Met Office Fellow and is leading the performance optimization of the Next Generation Modelling Systems. In 2018 he also joined the University of Reading Department of Computing as an Associate Professor whilst retaining his position at the Met Office.
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