Christopher Woods
AI Supercomputing Infrastructure Lead at University of Bristol
Bristol, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChristopher Woods is an AI supercomputing infrastructure lead at the University of Bristol, responsible for the Isambard-AI and Isambard3 installations and the operational launch of next-generation campus-scale supercomputers. With 12+ years bridging computational chemistry, HPC and research software engineering, he previously built and led Bristol’s central RSE group and was an early EPSRC RSE Fellow who helped found the national Society of RSE. He’s a hands-on developer who created a C++/Python molecular simulation framework (Sire) and co-founded BioSimSpace, both maintained by the OpenBioSim community, demonstrating deep domain expertise from laptops to national supercomputers. Christopher combines strong software-architecture and testing practice with advanced physics, Monte Carlo sampling and parallel programming skills across C++, Python and R. He brings rare cross-cutting experience running research teams, procuring and operating HPC platforms, and translating algorithm research into production-grade simulation software. Colleagues value him for turning complex scientific requirements into scalable, maintainable infrastructure and tooling that accelerates research impact.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Physical Chemistry, PhD, Physical Chemistry at University of Southampton
Thai
Github Skills (101)
interoperability10
python10
forge10
computational-biology10
simulations10
molecular-simulation10
plugin-architecture10
endpoint-security10
simulation10
authorisation10
reproducible-research10
idp10
itil9
architecture9
javascript9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
isambard-sc/waldur-mastermind
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
Waldur MasterMind is a hybrid cloud orchestrator.
Contributions:2 reviews, 148 pushes, 6 branches in 8 months
OpenBioSim/sire
Sep 2015 - Feb 2023
Sire Molecular Simulations Framework
Contributions:17 releases, 75 reviews, 1432 commits in 7 years 6 months
pythonsimulationssimulationmolecularbiomolecular-simulation
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