Team Members
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Gillian Sinclair
Relationship Manager
Gillian is a Relationship Manager for Research IT. As part of her role she facilitates and coordinates research networks across the University and ensures that the research community is kept up to date with Research IT services and activities. Previously she was the Programme Manager for N8 CIR, a Tier 2 HPC regional computing service for over 10 years.
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Martin Turner
Relationship Manager
Martin is a Research IT Relationship Manager, and is a Visiting Scientist within the Scientific Computing Division in STFC; after overlapping secondments being Visualisation Director for the Harwell Imaging Partnership (HIP) at STFC/RAL and as a Visualisation Group Leader at STFC/DL. He initially gained his PhD in the Computer Laboratory at Cambridge University, on Image Coding and now supports the full research pipeline over a broad HPC/HTC background, specialising in many Visualization Themes, Computer Graphics and Mathematical topics associated with image and signal creation, data management, analysis, processing and presentation.
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Robert Haines
Director of Research IT
Robert (Rob) is Director of Research IT, Director of the Research Lifecycle Programme, and an Honorary Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science. He is one of the originators of the term ‘Research Software Engineer’, has served for six years as an elected representative of the UK RSE Association, chaired the first conference of Research Software Engineers in 2016, and is a founding trustee of the Society of Research Software Engineering.
Robert has worked in a wide range of domains for research projects of various types and sizes from small proof-of-concept investigations up to long-term multi-partner UKRI, EU and US NSF projects. He has collaborated with diverse organisations such as utility companies, national laboratories, start-ups and public bodies, as well as other universities. He also contributes to a number of open-source software communities. His favourite programming language is Ruby.
Robert’s research interests include software engineering, software sustainability, software use in open and reproducible research, software citation and credit, and career paths for software engineers and data scientists. He teaches Software Engineering to second year undergraduate students In the Department of Computer Science.