Chris Wood

Project Manager
+44 (0)131 651 3550
Pronouns
he/him

Following a chemistry degree at Bangor University, I completed an MSc at the University of Sheffield and a PhD in the School of Ocean & Earth Sciences at the University of Southampton, where I modelled nutrient cycling and early diagenesis in the sediments of shelf sea environments. I then spent a few years working in scientific software development, firstly at STFC and then at the British Oceanographic Data Centre before joining EPCC as a Data Science Applications Consultant in July 2018.
 

I'm currently involved in a range of projects which span supporting meteorological research (both running forecasting models in HPC environments and management of large data sets), geospatial data analysis, and metadata enhancement and publication for data held in Trusted Research Environments.

I'm the PI of a NERC Advanced Short Training Course grant (Essential Scientific Computing for Environmental Scientists), which has been running since October 2022, and am heavily involved in both the MSc that EPCC runs (being the course organiser for Fundamentals of Data Management) and ARCHER2 training courses 
 

Previous projects, roles, and responsibilities

  • Technical lead and service manager of the Research Data Scotland (meta-)data portal: https://find.researchdata.scot.
  • "Containerisation of NEMO embedded in Singularity": testing the efficiency of Singularity containers by compiling a relatively complex ocean circulation model, and comparing the runtimes relative to bare-metal runs
  • Tomorrow's Cities: Data Management advice for the Tomorrow's Cities project (https://www.tomorrowscities.org)
  • Developer on the PyNMSSO project (https://github.com/EPCCed/pynmmso/wiki)
  • ARCHER / Cirrus Service Desk support
  • Developer on the ADAPT-Support project
  • Developer / researcher on DARE (DARE: Delivering Agile Research Excellence on European e-Infrastructures)

Outside of work, I enjoy mountaineering and kayaking & canoeing, and I seem to be a perpetual beginner skier and mountain biker.