Oracle's High Performance Cloud for Research & Innovation

Professor David Glowacki

Professor David Glowacki is a theoretical chemist, author, inventor, and the creator of danceroom spectroscopy.Originally from Milwaukee, David came to the UK in 2003 on a Fulbright scholarship to study cultural theory at the University of Manchester, subsequently completing a PhD in physical chemistry at Leeds before arriving at Bristol. Dr Glowacki is also a Royal Society Research Fellow, School of Chemistry and a founder of Bristol-based startup, Interactive Scientific.Based in the University of Bristol's Centre for Computational Chemistry, he has collaborations across several areas of chemistry, using tools from classical and quantum mechanics to understand a range of nano-physics relevant to gases, solids, and liquids.

Dr Vivien Raymond

Dr Vivien Raymond is a gravitational-wave astrophysicist, who uses gravitational-wave observations to study the universe. This new way to look at the world around us was pioneered in 2015, with the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration's detection of the Binary Black Hole merger GW150914.Dr Raymond is a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, and specialises in the astrophysical interpretation of gravitational-wave observations. His work includes charaterizing the detected binary black holes and binary neutron stars (such as GW170817), and planning for the future (surprise) discoveries of transient gravitational- wave astronomy.

Dr Christopher Woods

Dr Christopher Woods is an EPSRC Research Software Engineer (RSE) Fellow. His role is to help researchers develop more flexible, performant and sustainable software. Dr Woods works in the Advanced Computing Research Centre and the School of Chemistry at the university of Bristol, and has developed a range of programming and computational chemistry teaching resources. He is a strong supporter of the campaign to recognise the importance of research software, and to improve career pathways for research software engineers and developers, and is currently the joint chair of the UK Research Software Engineering association.

Mariano Vázquez

Mariano Vázquez, PhD, is a Co-founder and CTO of ELEM Biotech. Researcher in the field of Computational Mechanics, specially applied to the Biomedical realm.
Specialities: CFD, CSM, HPC, Multi-physics, Cardiac Computational Modelling, and Respiratory System.
ALYA is a Large-Scale Computational Mechanics code, capable of solving multi- physics problems in supercomputers.
Mariano is also Applications Manager and member of the Executive Board of the Center of Excellence in Computational Biomedicine (CompBioMed) created in the summer of 2016.

Phil Bates

Phil Bates works at the intersection of cloud product development and research - leading Oracle's Startup for Higher Education and Research programme in EMEA, building collaborations between Oracle product development and researchers in academia and industry with computationally and data intensive workloads - looking to accelerate the speed of research and discovery using Oracle Cloud.Phil works closely with university professors and researchers at the forefront of their respective fields across a wide range of domains and industries. His focus is to enable researchers to use state-of-the-art cloud technology.Phil has over 25 years industry experience delivering high profile software products and cloud services and leading outstanding software development teams in Bristol, California and India.

John Abel

John Abel is Vice President of Innovation and Cloud for Oracle across UK, Ireland and Israel. John has been in the IT industry for 27 years, and has lead the engagement on Oracle's most challenging programmes across the UK and globally.
John's role in the last few years has changed to look after all solution architects and solution engineers and help define Oracle's technology strategy, working closely with product development to feed into the global strategy. Leading innovation, John is very active in emerging technology like IoT, AI, machine learning and blockchain, and brings together emerging technology and heritage solutions to gain wisdom for customers.

Martin Hogg

Martin Hogg leads the Oracle Serverless and Cloud Native development team, building the next generation of application development platform for Oracle. This includes Container Pipelines, Container Registry, Container Engine, and Function as a Service (FnProject.io) as well as making contributions to the Kubernetes, Spinnaker, and Packer open-source projects. Martin has a long track record as an architect and leader at Oracle, playing a key role in the design and creation of many Oracle Cloud and Middleware products.

Marina Traversari

Marina Traversari is the programme manager for the Oracle Global Startup Ecosystem in the UK. She has a wealth of programme management experience across various disciplines, including innovative startup projects, multimedia, film, television and politics. She has produced her own Ed Tech applications, exhibited at BETT at ExCel, taken part in NESTA Futurelab Design Challenge and exhibited her work at Submerge, an audio- visual tech/arts expo.With a proven track record in managing relationships and partnerships, breaking down social barriers and championing equality and diversity, combined with a passion for using technology for improving people's lives, Marina is looking forward to helping Bristol and the UK grow startup technology and help impact the wider global technology ecosystem through Oracle's startup program.