Dr Derek Groen
Reader in Computer Science
Wilfred Brown Building 210
- Email: derek.groen@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 268297
Research area(s)
I am an interdisciplinary researcher who focuses primarily on multiscale modelling and high-performance computing, but takes along some of the major challenges that surround these topics. These include performance modelling and optimization, distributed computing, new approaches for code coupling, and techniques to make intensive computational research easier and more efficient.
In terms of applications, I currently model bloodflow in cerebral arteries (using lattice-Boltzmann), and self-assembly processes in layered materials (using molecular dynamics methods). I have worked with a number of other models before (e.g., dark matter simulations to resolve structure formation in the universe), and I am likely to pick up new applications as I proceed with my career.
Research grants and projects
Research Projects
Grants
Funder: Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council
Duration: August 2021 - August 2024
Funder: European Commission
Duration: September 2020 - August 2023
Funder: European Commission
Duration: September 2020 - August 2022
STAMINA aims at providing solutions for the preparedness and response phases of the emergency management cycle by facilitating intelligent evidence-based decision support for practitioners at national and regional levels involved in pandemic crises management.
Funder: European Commission
Duration: December 2018 - November 2021
Funder: European Commission Directorate-General for Research and Innovation
Duration: November 2018 - November 2021
Funder: European Commission
Duration: June 2018 - June 2021
Funder: Queen Mary, University of London
Duration: January 2018 - September 2018
The key purpose of this project is to set up an independent, research-led observatory of search and rescue (SAR) and interdiction incidents, through a secured digital environment for the collection, storage, exchange, and dissemination of reliable data regarding human rights violations in the Mediterranean.
Funder: EPCC
Duration: August 2017 - December 2018
HemeLB [1] is code designed to simulate blood flow in arteries using Lattice-Boltzmann methods (LBM). For complex geometries like the Circle of Willis, it scales up to 25k cores on the Cray XC30 supercomputer ARCHER but simulations still take several days to complete. Building on the work by Randles and Kaxiras [2], this project will integrate parallel-in-time integration capacities into HemeLB to extend scaling and reduce wall-clock times.
Funder: European Commission
Duration: October 2016 - September 2018
Funder: European Cooperation in Science and Technology
Duration: April 2016 - April 2020
Our main objective is to gather a critical mass of researchers and stakeholders from different disciplines and coordinate these researchers as a team to define and investigate important S&T challenges in multiscale systems medicine, and to improve existing and develop novel solutions for multiscale systems medicine
Project details
- Named contributer and collaborator in the funded Horizon 2020 ComPat project (4M EUR).
- Collaborator in the UKCOMES EPSRC High-End Computing Consortium.
- Co-I on the GridsInGrids ARCHER eCSE project (~100k EUR)
Independent Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science at Brunel University.
Emeritus Fellow of the 2020 Science project (www.2020science.net)
Visiting Lecturer at the Centre for Computational Science (http://ccs.chem.ucl.ac.uk)
Research links
Co-author network
- Dr Diana Suleimenova
- Dr David Bell
- Dr Isabel Sassoon
- Prof Panos Louvieris
- Dr Alan Serrano-Rico
- Dr Anastasia Anagnostou
- Prof Simon Taylor
- Dr Alireza Jahani
- Dr Yani Xue
- Dr Alaa Marshan
- Visualise network