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: European Commission
Duration: October 2016 - September 2018
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 Alireza Jahani
- Dr Yani Xue
- Dr David Bell
- Dr Isabel Sassoon
- Prof Panos Louvieris
- Dr Alan Serrano-Rico
- Dr Anastasia Anagnostou
- Prof Simon Taylor
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