Research Software Group Staff

BEAR Software services are provided by the Research Software Group in Advanced Research Computing. We have a team from diverse backgrounds from Physics to Theology. Some of the team are centrally funded, and some are part of colleges or academic teams.

Group Leadership

• Dr Andrew Edmondson (Ed) - Research Software Group Leader
• Dr Simon Branford - Deputy Leader of the Research Software Group and Principal RSE

DevOps Engineers

• Leo Turnell-Ritson - DevOps Engineer

Research Applications Specialists

• Dr James Carpenter - Senior Research Applications Specialist
• Dr Gavin Yearwood - Research Applications Specialist
• Chris Greasley - Research Applications Specialist
• Vlad Mogilev - Research Applications Specialist

Research Data Scientists

• Dr Cai Wingfield - Senior Research Data Scientist
• Dr Kamilla Kopec-Harding - Senior Research Data Scientist
• Dr Jeremy Pike - Senior Research Data Scientist

Research Software Engineers

• Cerys Lewis - Senior Research Software Engineer (Web)
• Mike Allaway - Senior Research Software Engineer (College of Arts and Law)
• Dr Simon Hartley - Senior Research Software Engineer (HPC)
• Dr Mohammad Afraz Ahmed - Senior Research Software Engineer
• Dr James Allsopp - Senior Research Software Engineer
• Dr Adrian Dante Garcia - Senior Research Software Engineer and Manager
• Dr Warrick Ball - Senior Research Software Engineer and Manager
• Thomas Kappas - Senior Research Software Engineer
• Dr James Tyrrell - Senior Research Software Engineer and Manager
• Dr Catherine Smith - Senior Research Software Engineer
• Dr Neil Butcher - Senior Research Software Engineer
• Dr Tom Neep - Senior Research Software Engineer
• Dr Alex Lyttle - Research Software Engineer