Lee Margetts

Lee Margetts is very keen to work with academics and industry to extend the capabilities of the parallel software in the book with open source contributions, proprietary add-ons and interfaces with third party libraries. Please contact lee.margetts@manchester.ac.uk to discuss possible collaboration opportunities.

Lee was awarded a PhD in Civil Engineering in 2002 for a thesis titled “Parallel Finite Element Analysis”. In 2011, he completed an MBA (with distinction) in International Engineering Business Management, with a dissertation titled “Wealth Generation from Open Source Software”.

He joined the University of Manchester in 2001, working as a postdoctoral researcher and Senior HPC Consultant in the UK National Supercomputing Service, CSAR until 2006. He now holds a similar post, tasked with developing research computing capability at the University of Manchester. He also holds appointments as Lecturer in the School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, and Head of Synthetic Environments at the University of Manchester Aerospace Research Institute. Lee is a long standing member of SIAM, ACM and NAFEMS (where he is Chairman of the NAFEMS HPC Working Group).

Lee is an expert in massively parallel finite element analysis and leads the open source project ParaFEM (http://parafem.org.uk). He has received support from various research councils and companies including EPSRC (EP/D037867, PI EP/F055595), BBSRC, NERC, ESA, Microsoft, HECToR dCSE and UMIP Ltd. He has extensive experience of using capability HPC systems in the UK (CSAR, HPCx, HECToR, ARCHER) and overseas (PRACE, DEISA, TeraGrid), being an expert reviewer for applications to PRACE and a member of the PRACE Industrial Advisory Committee. He is currently an investigator on the EU FP7 project “European Exascale Software Initiative” (2012-2015), defining how the EU will spend a €1.2 billion budget for Exascale software development.