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Dr Mark Naylor - Brief Curriculum Vitae

I have undertaken a variety of GeoScience computer simulation and modelling projects.

Download CV without publications [Updated 1/11/07]
Download publication list [Updated 17/7/09]

Employment

Personal Research Fellow, Scottish Government and Royal Society of Edinburgh (2009-Present)
PDRA, Geophysical modelling of CCS, SCCS, Edinburgh University, School of GeoSciences (2008-2009)
PDRA, NANIA, Edinburgh University, School of GeoSciences (2004-2008)

Education

PhD, Edinburgh University, School of GeoSciences (2000-2004)
MPhys 2:1, Oxford University, Department of Physics (1996-2000)
A-Levels, Hessle High School (1994-1996)

Esteem indicators

2011
EGU Session Convener on Earthquake Triggering

2010
Invited Panel Member on the Institute of Physics meeting on "A Dialogue on Complexity Applied", Judge Business School, Cambridge (Sept)
Invited speaker on the EPSRC Summer School on CCS held in Beijing, China talking on "Geological storage of CO2: Capacity, injectivity, security and monitorability" (Sept)
Contributed to the British Geophysical Association's written submission to government inquiry on Scientific advice and evidence in emergencies
CORSSA Executive Committee Member, www.corssa.org

Pre 2010
Presenter on EPSRC mission to China on CCS in Beijing (2009)
NANIA conference organiser (2007)

Computational modelling

I have strong knowledge and experience with Discrete Element Modelling (DEM) and Cellular Automata (CA) and some experience with finite difference codes.

Scientific Courses

Sense about science, Workshop about the miscommunication of science in the media, RSE, Edinburgh (2009, 1 day)
Fundamentals of Enhanced Oil Recovery, SCCS, Edinburgh (2009, 1 day)
HPC Techniques in Computational Engineering - CFD, EPCC, Edinburgh (2008, 3 days)
Summer School in Complexity Science: Emergent phenomena via separation of scales in time and space, Imperial College London, (2007, 10 days)
Nonlinear Computational Solid & Fluid Mechanics: Theoretical formulation, FEM technology and computation, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany (2006, 5 days)
Applied Numerical Algorithms, EPCC, Edinburgh (2006, 4 days)
Scientific Visualisation using VTK, EPCC, Edinburgh (2005, 1 day)
Practical Software Development, EPCC, Edinburgh (2005, 4 days)
Java for High Performance Computing, EPCC, Edinburgh (2005, 2 days)
Introduction to High Performance Computing, EPCC, Edinburgh (2005, 1 day)
Geophysical and Environmental Fluid Dynamics Summer School, DAMPT, Cambridge (2002, 2 weeks)
Earth Systems Science Summer School, UAE, Norwich (2001, 2 weeks)

Personal Development Courses

Project management for researchers, Edinburgh (2010, 2 days)
Scottish Crucible (2009, 3 x 2 day)
Introducing Management, Edinburgh (2008, 2.5 day)
Making Funding Application, Edinburgh (2007, 1 day)
Enhancing your writing skills, Edinburgh (2007, 1 day)
Fieldwork/Outdoor First Aid Course, Marlin, at Edinburgh (2006, 2 days)
Presentation Skills, Edinburgh (2000, 1 day)

Computing Skills

Operating Systems: Linux, Windows XP, Unix
Commercial geological modeling software : MPath
Programming Languages : Java, Perl, Python, Fortran, C++, Matlab, Bash
Programming Tools Employed : Netbeans IDE, Ant, SubVersion / CVS, JFreeChart


Statistical Analysis : S+, R, SSlib, Excel


Web Design : HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Google Maps API & KML [Carbon Storage Example][example], Google Analytics


Graphical Design : Adobe Illustrator, Gimp, ImageMagick, GMT, Inkscape, CorelDraw


Word Processing : Word, Open Office, LaTex


Presentation : PowerPoint, OpenOffice
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