Peter Coveney
Peter V. Coveney is a British chemist who is Professor of
Physical Chemistry, Honorary Professor of
Computer Science, and the Director of the Centre for Computational Science (CCS) and Associate Director of the Advanced Research Computing Centre at
University College London (UCL). He is also a Professor of Applied
High Performance Computing at
University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Professor Adjunct at the
Yale School of Medicine,
Yale University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Member of
Academia Europaea. Coveney is active in a broad area of interdisciplinary research including condensed matter physics and chemistry, materials science, as well as life and medical sciences in all of which
high performance computing plays a major role. The citation about Coveney on his election as a
FREng says: Coveney "has made outstanding contributions across a wide range of scientific and engineering fields, including physics, chemistry, chemical engineering, materials, computer science, high performance computing and biomedicine, much of it harnessing the power of supercomputing to conduct original research at unprecedented space and time scales. He has shown outstanding leadership across these fields, manifested through running multiple initiatives and multi-partner interdisciplinary grants, in the UK, Europe and the US. His achievements at national and international level in advocacy and enablement are exceptional".
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