Dr Christopher Woods - Head of Research Software Engineering
Christopher held an EPSRC Research Software Engineering Fellowship from 2016-2021 and is now employed as the Head of Research Software Engineering. He has worked at Bristol since 2006, first as a PostDoc in Chemistry, and later as Technical Lead and Systems Administrator for BrisSynBio. He has a strong background in computational chemistry, biomolecular modelling and Monte Carlo methods, and particular expertise in programming with C++ and Python.
His research interests include improving the quality of academic research software via the addition of unit and integration tests, developing new ways of parallelising software using task-based approaches, and developing demand-driven applications that enable scalable computing on the cloud and the development of computing notebooks that combine documentation, simulation and interactive data analysis.
Christopher is the principal or founding software engineer for a number of projects, including MetaWards, Sire, Brunel's Network and ProtoMS.
