Congratulations to Andrea - and many thanks to Sean
Many congratulations to Andrea who is stepping into the Discipline Head of Education (DHoE) role in the New Year. At this point I’d like to very much thank Sean for his (many) years of leadership in this and similar roles. Sean’s level-headedness has helped the department navigate a number of challenges in recent times and I’m sure you’ll all join me in thanking Sean for his commitment and leadership. I am in no doubt that Andrea will be equally wonderful as our new DHoE.
23/24 Atlas and Inaugural Talk Seminar Series
Our 23/24 research seminar series features a number of talks by external speakers and by recently hired/promoted colleagues in the department. Each seminar will be followed by a social event - please do try to attend as many as you can as these are a good way to meet new (and not-so-new) colleagues. Titles and abstracts will be added to the schedule ahead of each talk. You can find the full list of seminars here.
Welcome to Stian Soiland-Reyes
Welcome to Stian Soiland-Reyes who has been appointed Senior Lecturer in FAIR, Open and Reproducible Digital Research. Stian’s research focuses on how researchers across domains can better share computational methods, complex data structures and structured metadata, with provenance of scientific activities, forming scholarly outputs of Research Objects in order to support Open Research.
Stian has helped build international communities and standard initiatives to formalize such FAIR digital objects using Linked Data, Web standards and computational workflow systems. He is promoting and supporting Open Research practices in networks including ELIXIR Europe and Research Data Alliance (RDA). Stian joined Computer Science in 2006 as a Research Associate and effectively Research Software Engineer (before that title existed!), and has since contributed to more than 14 international and national research projects on these topics. He has been teaching on the MSc Data Science programme since 2019. Stian will be co-leading the eScience Lab in the Information Management Group together with Carole Goble. The research group is currently active on 18 funded projects.
The S3 Group are in a Festive Mood
As you can see in the photo below, the Systems and Software Security (S3) Research Group are first off the festive mark with their recent group Christmas lunch at Habas.
Pete Jinks has passed away
Pete Jinks, who was in our department for many years until his retirement in 2012, has sadly passed away. I know many colleagues have fond memories of Pete. His son-in-law, David Lewis, has contacted me with funeral details: The funeral has been arranged for 1.30pm on Saturday the 9th of December in Fishguard. It's being held at the Chapel of Rest at the premises of Paul Jenkins and Sons, Feidir Castell, Fishguard SA65 9BD. Tel 01348 873250. Following the service all will be welcome at the wake at Cranged, St Nicholas, Goodwick SA64 0LX. Any queries please call David on 07733 223 232.
Andrew