Champions for Transformational Change

NetDRIVE has enlisting a team of Champions to work with the project for 30 months. 

The Champions for Transformational Change towards Sustainable Research Computing provide leadership across all aspects of technological advance and community transformation relevant to achieving net zero research computing. 

The champions are current and future leaders providing specialist domain knowledge. They will build on scoping study outcomes and help set the vision for community activities, working closely with them and the network to formulate and synthesise actionable advice. 

The champions have been appointed through a competitive award process which was open to all career stages and allocated to ensure balanced support is provided for across the four NetDRIVE themes. Early-career champions are provided with support and mentorship from within the Network enabling them to develop skills necessary to become future leaders.

The NetDRIVE Champions

• Loïc Lannelongue, Senior Research Associate (Assistant Research Professor), University of Cambridge
• Michael Rudyard, Michael Rudgyard Consultancy
• Alex Owen, Senior Physicist Programmer, Queen Mary University of London
• Kirsty Pringle, Project Manager, University of Edinburgh, EPCC
• Andy Turner, Principal Architect, University of Edinburgh EPCC
• Lorna Smith, Programme Manager, University of Edinburgh EPCC
• Jessica Huntley, Mathematical Research Software Engineer, STFC
• Erinma Ochu, Wallscourt Associate Professor, Immersive Media, UWE Bristol