Peter Hill
Research Software Engineer

Profile

Career

MPhys (Warwick, 2008), PhD (Warwick, 2013)

Turbulence Modeller: CCFE, 2013-2014

PDRA: IRFM, CEA (France), 2014-2015

Computational Physics Research Officer: University of York, 2015-2017

Associate Research Software Engineer: University of York, 2017-2018

Research Software Engineer: University of York, 2018-present

EPSRC RSE Fellowship 2021

Research

Overview

Research Interests

My focus is on software sustainability: the capacity of software to endure. The vast majority of research is reliant on software, so it is vital that the software is trust-worthy, maintainable, and performs well.

Projects

• I am a maintainer of two world-class plasma software packages, BOUT++ and GS2, and have made contributions to many other codes and libraries.
• My Fellowship is about transforming the culture within plasma science in the UK towards embracing open research, software, and data, and a more solid basis of sustainable software.

Research group(s)

• York Plasma Institute

Grants

• TDoTP Programme Grant: Researcher Co-Investigator, RSE
• Embedding FAIRness in Plasma Science: EPSRC RSE Fellowship 2021

Collaborators

• Tony Arber, University of Warwick
• Paul McKenna, University of Strathclyde
• Rob Akers, CCFE - Alys Brett, CCFE
• Neil Chue Hong, SSI
• Simon Hettrick, SSI
• Robert Kingham, Imperial College London
• Markus Becker, Leibniz Association

External activities

Memberships

• Society of Research Software Engineers