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Research Platforms

The Platforms - Research team provide support to researchers using the specialist University IT systems for their research and advice for researchers preparing funding bids.

The team can be contacted via the ITS Support Portal.

The Team

Associate Director, Digital Research Services:

Leads the strategic development of the University's research IT services and capabilities. Collaborates with academic and Professional Services colleagues to understand needs and goals, develop business cases and maintain oversight of our projects and operations through effective governance.

Platform Owner:

  • HPC, Research Data Storage
  • Research Servers and VMs
  • Professional Services lead for the HPC Users Group

Senior Infrastructure Engineer: Simon Davis

  • Research Data Management
  • Research Storage Servers
  • Backups, recovery, repair for Research Data services

Systems Engineer: Reese Wilkinson

  • Research software stack
  • VMs and Web Services
  • Data Science
  • User training
  • HPC health
  • SLURM

Systems Engineer: Haruna Adoga

  • Networking
  • GridPP service specialist
  • General HPC workloads

Systems Engineer: Benjamin Donnachie

  • Cybersecurity
  • GridPP service specialist

Systems Analyst: Luke Ingerson

  • Accounts and access
  • Ticket triage
  • Filesystems
  • Usage and incident reports

 

Updated on 2 April 2025