STEP-UP Project Team
The STEP-UP project core team includes investigators and team members from
Imperial College London, King’s College London, UCL and the University of
Westminster.
Advanced Research Fellow, Department of Computing
Director of Research Software Engineering Strategy
Imperial College London
STEP-UP Roles: Project Lead
Jeremy is an Advanced Research Fellow in the Department of Computing and Director of Research Software Engineering Strategy at Imperial College London. He leads the STEP-UP project and is also involved in a group of other UKRI-funded Digital Research Infrastructure projects. He is a previous holder of an EPSRC Research Software Engineering (RSE) fellowship. Jeremy has been actively involved in the building of communities that help bring together researchers and software developers from a wide range of research domains. STEP-UP is taking this work forward to support the wider community of digital Research Techncial Professionals. Jeremy leads the Imperial Research Software Engineering Community, which he founded in 2015. He also started the regional RSLondon community, on which the STEP-UP project is building.
Professor of Computational Chemistry
Director of Research Computing Engagement
Imperial College London
STEP-UP Roles: Project Co-lead
Michael Bearpark is Professor of Computational Chemistry and Director of Research Computing Engagement at Imperial College London. His research interests are in computational chemistry, molecular electronic excited states and photochemical reaction dynamics. He contributes to the development of the Gaussian computational chemistry code and his experimental collaborators includes laser spectroscopists working on the control of chemical reactions.
Director & Principal Research Software Analyst
King's College London
STEP-UP Roles: Project Co-lead
Arianna has over 15 years’ experience in collaborative Digital Humanities (DH) research, and 10 years’ experience in research management, and digital research infrastructures (inclusive of research policy strategy and implementation). She is an active member of the Research Software Engineers (RSE) and DH national and international communities; she researches and advocates for a holistic understanding of digital infrastructures and of modelling processes of cultural-historical objects and phenomena for the application of computational methods.
Her personal research interests focus on modelling processes (from data modelling to design and analysis). She lectured and published on humanities computing, in particular on digital manuscript studies and editing; she has organised conferences and workshops in digital humanities, and is an active member of its international community.
Head of Research Software Engineering
King's College London
STEP-UP Roles: Project Co-lead
James leads the central Research Software Engineering (RSE) group in the King’s e-Research team. This group collaborates with researchers across the college, providing specialist skills in to research projects, delivering training, and advocating for the importance of software as a critical component of modern research practice. James’ research background is in computational chemistry.
James leads the development and implementation of UCL’s institutional research data services and manages a team of 17 technically-focused research data stewards with UCL’s Centre for Advanced Research Computing (ARC). These data stewards collaborate with research teams and academic departments to help ensure data is well managed and as FAIR as possible (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable).
James is co-lead of STEP UP and also ACCORD, which is building a community to address issues concerning the often laborious contracting of data sharing plans. He is a co-chair of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) Interest Group on Research Data Architectures for Research Institutions (RDARI) and an active participant in a number of RDA working groups.
Professor of Distributed Computing, School of Computer Science and Engineering
Director of the Research Centre for Parallel Computing
Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange, School of Computer Science and Engineering
University of Westminster
STEP-UP Roles: Project Co-lead
Tamas is a Professor of Distributed Computing at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Director of the Research Centre for Parallel Computing and Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange at the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Westminster. Since 2020, he has served as Editor in Chief at the Journal of Grid Computing.
The leading research outputs of his team (in collaboration with various research groups in Europe) in the past few years have been the MiCADO cloud orchestrator solution that enables the automated deployment and run-time management of microservices-based applications in heterogeneous cloud infrastructures, the CloudSME, CloudiFacturing and DIGITbrain platforms that support manufacturing and engineering companies to utilise cloud-based high-performance computing services to run simulation and optimisation applications, and the PITHIA e-Science Centre that enables space physicists to discover and access models, workflows and datasets based on an standardised metadata and an ontology.
This page is based on the team page design from the UNIVERSE-HPC project website.