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Peter Coveney
Peter Coveney holds a chair in physical chemistry and is an honorary professor in computer science at University College London (where he is the director of the Centre for Computational Science), a professor in applied high-performance computing at the University of Amsterdam, and professor adjunct at Yale University School of Medicine. He is active in a broad area of interdisciplinary research including condensed matter physics and chemistry, materials science, and life and medical sciences. He has led many large-scale projects and is principal investigator on several current projects funded by the European Commission and other agencies.
He has received many US, UK and European supercomputing awards, which have provided him with unique access to several supercomputers. He chaired the UK Collaborative Computational Projects Steering Panel (2005–15) and has served on programme committees of many conferences, including the 2002 Nobel Symposium on Self-Organisation. He is a founding member of the UK government’s E-Infrastructure Leadership Council and a Medical Academy Nominated Expert to the UK Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology on Data, Algorithms and Modelling, which has led to the creation of the London-based Turing Institute. He is also a member of Academia Europaea, as well as the Thomas Young Centre, an alliance of London research groups working on the theory and simulation of materials.
He has published more than 400 scientific papers and co-authored two bestselling books (The Arrow of Time and Frontiers of Complexity, both with Roger Highfield) and is lead author of the textbook Computational Biomedicine (Oxford University Press, 2014).
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