Dr John Watt

Research Assistant (Glasgow)
National e-Science Centre

 

Room: 246D

Building: Kelvin Building

email: j.watt@nesc.gla.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)141 330 8647

Fax: +44 (0)141 330 4913

 

Biography and Research Interests
John is a Research Associate at the National e-Science Centre at the University of Glasgow. Since 2002 he has worked on many projects on access control, user management and security for UK e-Research, including DyVOSE, DAMES, nanoCMOS, EuroDSD and GLASS, specialising in implementing Privilege Management Infrastuctures using software such as PERMIS and Shibboleth. John has also authored Web portlets to streamline the operation of these infrastructures for end-users in the OMII-UK SPAM-GP project. He also helped create one of the first Masters-level courses in Grid Computing available at a UK university in 2004, in collaboration with Glasgow’s Department of Computing Science.

Prior to joining NeSC, he worked at Kymata Optoelectronics (Livingston) as an embedded software engineer for passive optical device subsystems.

He holds a BSc. in Physics and a Ph.D in Experimental Particle Physics, both from the University of Glasgow.