Prof Peter Clarke

Director of The National e-Science Centre
National e-Science Centre

Chair of e-Science, University of Edinburgh

Room: 4.03

Building: e-Science Institute

email: clarke@nesc.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)131 651 4210

Fax: +44 (0)131 650 9819

 

Biography and Research Interests
Peter Clarke is Professor of e-Science at the University of Edinburgh and Director the UK National e-Science Centre. He was formerly head of Particle Physics at University College London. In the area of Grid computing he has been involved in UK e-Science since its inception. He directs the Institute for e-Science at Edinburgh which comprises the NeSC (national centre), the e-Science training and education team, the e-Science Institute, and the NeSC research division. He was a founder of the e-Science Centre of Excellence in Networked Systems at UCL. He is a member of the management board of the UK grid for particle physics (GridPP), and formerly the European Data Grid and the EGEE projects. He was a member of the Global Grid Forum Steering Committee and co-Director of the Data Area until 2005. He has works with the JISC for several years through its Committee for Networking (JCN) and the Committee for the Support of Research (JCSR). He has also been very active in the promotion of national and international networking to enable research. He has led several application projects which address issues on the boundary between Grids and the Network and was a principal proponent of UKLight. He is a member of the Particle Physics experiment group at Edinburgh. His earlier work was in making precision measurements of the electro-weak interaction, the properties of the Z and W bosons and indirect searches for the Higgs boson at SLD (SLAC) and LEP (CERN). He now works on studies matter anti-matter asymmetry and CP violation at the LHC proton collider programme (CERN) as a member of the LHCb experiment. He is qualified with D.Phil in Particle Physics from Oxford University, and a B.Sc in Electronic Engineering from Southampton University.