Research Interests

Robin is a Research Software Engineer (RSE) with a background in High-Performance Computing and Particle Physics. Robin has been (back) at Lancaster since May 2021. Prior to this, he was a Research Software Engineer in the RSE Group at Manchester where he worked for 2 years on various projects. Robin completed a PhD in particle physics at Lancaster in 2008 and worked in the Experimental Particle Physics group supporting the High-Performance Computing system used by Particle Physicists at Lancaster and around the world. Whilst doing this he taught several courses on tools and techniques needed for research software engineering. As part of his Fellowship with the Software Sustainability Institute, he created the Research Software Forum to support researchers at Lancaster who were using software as part of their research and provided training in various skills such as version control with Git.