
Dr Derek Groen
Lecturer in Computer Science
Wilfred Brown Building 210
- Email: derek.groen@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 268297
Summary
I am a Lecturer in Simulation and Modelling at Brunel University. I'm also an Emeritus Fellow for the EPSRC-funded 2020 Science Network, a Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, and a Visiting Lecturer at the Centre for Computational Science at University College London. I completed an MSc in Grid Computing at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) in 2006, and a PhD in Computational Astrophysics both at the UvA and Leiden University in November 2010. After my PhD I worked as a post-doctoral researcher on EU projects about distributed multiscale computing (MAPPER) and high-performance computing towards the Exascale (CRESTA). I received a 1-year position as a Fellow of 2020 Science in January 2015, and funded myself for two months through an EPSRC eCSE to work on new approaches for domain decomposition. I joined Brunel University in September 2015 to become a Lecturer and I currently collaborate in the EU ComPat project about multiscale computing towards the Exascale.
I have published >20 peer-reviewed journal papers in venues such as IEEE Computer, IEEE CiSE, Journal of Computational Science, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A., Physics Review E., the Astrophysical Journal and eLife. In addition, I was second author of the first ever feature article in Advanced Materials, which was on multiscale modelling of clay-polymer nanocomposites and received news coverage from the Daily Telegraph and the BBC. I currently run Science Hackathons to efficiently establish new interdisciplinary collaborations.
Newest selected publications
Groen, D., Knap, J., Neumann, P., Suleimenova, D., Veen, L. and Leiter, K. (2019) 'Mastering the scales: A survey on the benefits of multiscale computing software'. Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 377 (2142). pp. 20180147 - 20180147. ISSN: 1364-503X Open Access Link
Alowayyed, S., Piontek, T., Suter, JL., Hoenen, O., Groen, D., Luk, O., (2018) 'Patterns for High Performance Multiscale Computing'. Future Generation Computer Systems, 91. pp. 335 - 346. ISSN: 0167-739X Open Access Link
et al.Groen, D., Richardson, RA., Coy, R., Schiller, UD., Chandrashekar, H., Robertson, F. and (2018) 'Validation of patient-specific cerebral blood flow simulation using transcranial Doppler measurements'. Frontiers in Physiology, 9 (JUN). pp. 721. ISSN: 1664-042X Open Access Link
et al.Kaufmann, L., Razakanirina, R., Groen, D. and Chopard, B. (2018) 'Impact of immigrants on a multi-agent economical system'. PLoS ONE, 13 (5). pp. e0197509 - e0197509. ISSN: 1932-6203 Open Access Link
Suleimenova, D., Bell, D. and Groen, D. (2017) 'A generalized simulation development approach for predicting refugee destinations'. Scientific Reports, 7 (1). pp. 13377. ISSN: 2045-2322 Open Access Link