Peter Coveney#
| Membership Number: | 5078 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CHEMICAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://ccs.chem.ucl.ac.uk |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-8787-7256 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2019 - 2014 Professor of Applied High Performance Computing, Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 2010 Professor Adjunct, Medical School at Yale University
- 2010 - 2014 Director of UCL Network in Computational Life and Medical Sciences
- 2005 Honorary Professor of Computer Science, UCL
- 2002 Professor of Physical Chemistry, Director of Centre for Computational Science, University College London
- 1999 - 2002 Professor of Physical Chemistry, Director of Centre for Computational Science, Queen Mary, University of London
- 1996 - 1999 Wolfson-Harwell Fellow, Theoretical Physics Department, University of Oxford
- 1991 - 1998 Programme Leader & Senior Scientist, Schlumberger Cambridge Research, Cambridge
- 1987 - 1990 Lecturer in Physical Chemistry, University of Wales, Bangor
- 1984 - 1987 Sir Edward P. Abraham Junior Research Fellow, Keble College, University of Oxford
- 1981 - 1982 Jane Eliza Procter Visiting Fellow, Department of Physics, Princeton University, U.S.A.
Fields of Scholarship
- High performance visualisation and steering for large scale simulations
- Computational chemistry
- Equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics
- Advanced functional materials (2d nanomaterials and polymer nanocomposites)
- Theoretical chemistry
- Ultra high performance computing including development of codes that run on the world's fastest supercomputers
- Soft condensed matter modelling and simulation
- Multiscale modelling and simulation
- Computational biomedicine
Honours and Awards
- 2018 11th IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge Award, Washington DC
- 2008 Transformational Science & 5K Club Awards, NSF TeraGrid08
- 2006 Life Sciences Award, International Supercomputing Conference (Dresden)
- 2005 Inaugural HPC Analytics Challenge Award, Supercomputing (Seattle, USA)
- 2004 Integrated Data and Information Management Award, International Supercomputing Conference (Heidelberg)
- 2003 HPC Challenge Award, Supercomputing (Phoenix, USA)
- 1996 Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Award, American Association for Artificial Intelligence
- 1996 Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, U.K.
- 1997 Fellow of the Institute of Physics, U.K.
