Peter Maccallum

Academic Background

Between 1986 and 1997 I studied at the Universities of Edinburgh (Chemistry BSc) and Glasgow (Biochemistry PhD), and was employed by EPCC and the EBI to work on applications of High Performance Computing to (what we now call) e-Science.

Industrial Background

From 1998 to 2005 I was employed variously as a technical architect, consultant, and software development manager in the pharmaceutical industry (working on projects for Incyte, Aventis, GSK, Wyeth-Aerst and Bayer) and for producers of bioinformatics software (Synomics, Tripos and LION Bioscience).

Technical Interests

My technical expertise is mostly in the areas of bioinformatics data management and data modeling, the design and implementation of n-tier distributed systems, and more recently web services and Grids.

Links

Recent contributions include my participation in a European Commission Expert Group on Grid research:

• "Next Generation Grid(s), European Grid Research 2005 - 2010" (2003)
• "Next Generation Grids 2, Requirements and Options for European Grids Research 2005-2010 and Beyond" (2004)
• "Future for European Grids: GRIDs and Service Oriented Knowledge Utilities" (2005)

and prior to joining the CancerGRID team, I was Pharma Activity coordinator for the EC FP6 SIMDAT Grid project:

• "SIMDAT, Data Grids for Process and Product Development using Numerical Simulation and Knowledge Discovery"