Biography
Neil holds a Personal Chair in Research Software Policy and Practice at EPCC, University of Edinburgh. He is the PI and Founding Director of the Software Sustainability Institute, a national facility established in 2010 for research software users and developers, whose mission is to cultivate better, more sustainable, research software to enable world-class research. His work focuses on how software developed from and for research can be improved through the application of software engineering practices, provision of training, and development of communities, policies, and incentives.
He advises many large-scale investments in Digital Research Infrastructure in the UK and internationally, including as a member of the UKRI Advisory Group on Digital Research Infrastructure and the steering committee of the Research Software Alliance. He is the co-author of Best Practices for Scientific Computing and An Open Science Peer Reviewers Oath, co-organiser of the Software Engineering for Science workshop series, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Open Research Software.