Simon M. Smart

Simon Smart obtained a Ph.D. in theoretical chemistry in 2013 from the University of Cambridge, and then worked at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Chemistry writing high-performance computational chemistry software. He has worked at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts since 2015, focusing on scalability and the challenges of data handling on the pathway to Exascale. He now leads the Data Management Services team, with responsibility for all of the software infrastructure underpinning data handling at ECMWF.