BEAR Software services are provided by the
Research Software Group in
Advanced Research Computing.
Dr Louise Brown
Senior Research Software Engineer
On completion of her BSc in Mechanical Engineering and PhD (Design of a Filament Winding Cell), Louise worked for several years in the Computer Science Department working on automated design tools for CAD systems for industrial embroidery machines, all at the University of Nottingham.
She worked from home as a self-employed software engineer for thirteen years before returning to the Composites Research Group at Nottingham in 2009. She was responsible for development of TexGen, open source software for modelling the geometry of textile structures and in 2015 was awarded an EPSRC Research Software Engineering Fellowship on Software for Textile Modelling and Simulation.
Subsequently she was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering where she continued her research into modelling of textile composites and taught programming and software engineering modules for both undergraduate and postgraduate students. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a professional member of the BCS (MBCS) where she has been an active committee member of BCSWomen, supporting women in IT, since 2007.
She joined the Research Software Group at the University of Birmingham in July 2025 as a Senior Research Software Engineer.