Presenter

Dr. Chris Maynard joined the Met Office in 2012 as a senior scientific software engineer. He was promoted to expert in 2013 and has led the software development of the Met Office next-generation atmospheric model, LFRic. Prior to 2012, at the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), he developed and optimized scientific software for supercomputers in diverse scientific fields. He obtained his PhD in 1998 from the University of Edinburgh in theoretical particle physics. His research interests include performance optimization, parallel programming models, languages and algorithms. From 2018 until 2023 he was jointly Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Reading. Since August 2022 Chris has been a Met Office fellow and leads the performance optimization of the next-generation weather and climate modeling system, Momentum.