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Peter Coveney

Director of the Centre for Computational Science, University College London

Peter Coveney is a Professor of Physical Chemistry, Honorary Professor of Computer Science, and Director of the Centre for Computational Science (CCS) and Associate Director of the Advanced Research Computing Centre at University College London (UCL). He is also Professor of Applied High Performance Computing at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Professor Adjunct at the Yale School of Medicine. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Member of Academia Europaea. Coveney is active in a broad area of interdisciplinary research including condensed matter physics and chemistry, materials science, as well as life and medical sciences in all of which high performance computing plays a major role. He is the PI on several current grants from the European Commission and other agencies, including the EU H2020 Centre of Excellence in Computational Biomedicine, CompBioMed and CompBioMed2 (2016-2024). Professor Coveney has made seminal contributions across a wide range of scientific and engineering fields, including physics, chemistry, chemical engineering, materials, computer science, high performance computing and biomedicine, much of it harnessing the power of supercomputing to conduct original research at unprecedented space and time scales. He has shown outstanding leadership across these fields, manifested through running multiple initiatives and multi-partner interdisciplinary grants, in the UK, Europe and the US. His achievements at national and international level in advocacy and enablement are exceptional. He has published more than 500 scientific papers. He is the author of Virtual You (Princeton University Press, 2023) and two best-selling books Frontiers of Complexity (Random House, 1996) and The Arrow of Time (co-author, Fawcett Books, 1992). He is lead author of the first textbook on Computational Biomedicine (Oxford University Press, 2014). His latest book Virtual You explores the emerging science and technology of digital twins and shows how “digital twins” of patients will make medicine truly predictive and personalised. Virtual You has received critical acclaim in the media and is recommended by the Financial Times as a “book to read” in 2023.

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