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New appointments for Diamond Light Source


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iamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron, has recently appointed Dr Andrew Richards as its new head of scientific computing.


He joins Ulrik Pedersen, who became head of Diamond’s Beamline Controls Group in September. Alongside the Data Analysis and Data Acquisition Groups, they are responsible for delivering the computing capability to underpin the science facility’s cutting edge research and operational activities. Diamond Light Source speeds up


electrons to near light speeds, producing a light 10 billion times brighter than the sun. Tese bright beams are then directed off into laboratories known as ‘beamlines’. Scientists can then use this light to study everything from viruses and vaccines to fossils and jet engines. Richards joins Diamond from the


University of Oxford, where he led the Advanced Research Computing facility and was an associate director of the Oxford e-Research Centre. One of the country’s leading figures in e-infrastructure developments, he is a member of the UK National e-Infrastructure Project Directors Group, in which he continues to be involved. Ulrik Pedersen joined Diamond in


2005 from CERN, Geneva, as a soſtware systems engineer to design, commission and maintain control systems on Diamond Phase-I and II beamlines. In his new role he now leads the Beamline Controls Group – a team of engineers that design, build


and maintain the soſtware and hardware of the control systems on beamlines, enabling scientists to control, monitor, and synchronise instrumentation to perform their experiments. Diamond’s CEO, Andrew Harrison, said:


‘With their many years of experience in developing e-infrastructure and soſtware development, Andrew and Ulrik are great additions to the Diamond team. Tey and their colleagues provide vital support to the globally important research conducted at our facility and ensure we are well placed to serve the international science community.’ Commenting on his new appointment,


SANTOS DEAL INCREASES ALTAIR SIMULATION CAPABILITIES


Altair has announced that it will increase the simulation capabilities of its HyperWorks software portfolio with the addition of SantosHuman’s Santos Pro to its Altair Partner Alliance. Santos Pro predicts human


performance in order to aid in human- centric virtual design and analysis, while considering human strength, fatigue, flexibility, balance, vision and posture as well as clothing and other equipment worn on the body, external forces and environmental


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SantosHuman’s philosophy aligns nicely with ours and this partnership will enable our customers to further optimise their products’ performance early in the development cycle.’ Santos Pro predictive models


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design cycle. Steven C. Beck, president and CEO at SantosHuman, said: ‘I am extremely pleased with the opportunity to partner with Altair at this time. The need for digital human modelling and simulation is more important now than ever before to reduce costs and improve the competitive edge. Altair’s world class marketing teams and global presence will be critical in providing our target industries with state-of-the-art Santos technologies.’


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Richards said: ‘It’s an exciting time to join the team at Diamond Light Source. My role will be to lead sustainable and cutting- edge developments in IT to support the invaluable, pioneering research across the facility into the future.’ Diamond Light Source is funded by the


UK Government through the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), and by the Wellcome Trust. It is celebrating its 10th year of operations, during which time it has expanded from just seven operational beamlines to 26. In that time, more than 5,000 papers have been published as a result of research conducted at the facility.


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