Biography

Biagio Lucini is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, Professor of Mathematics and the Director of the Swansea Academy of Advanced Computing at Swansea University. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Theoretical Particle Physics by Scuola Normale (Pisa, Italy) in 2000. Before joining Swansea University in 2005, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics (Oxford University, UK) from 2000 to 2003 and at the Theoretical Physics Institute of ETH (Zurich, Switzerland) from 2003 to 2005. His research interests include Lattice Field Theory, Statistical Mechanics, Machine Learning, High-Performance Computing and Modelling of Infectious Diseases. An updated list of his research publications is available from Inspire or from Google Scholar. Biagio has been the recipient of the Royal Society University Research Fellowship, the Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award and the Leverhulme Fellowship. During the COVID-19 pandemic he has co-led a team of multidisciplinary researchers and research software engineers providing disease spread scenarios that have informed the non-pharmaceutical intervention policies of Welsh Government. His research projects include Supercomputing Wales and ExaTEPP. He is currently serving as a member of the Technical Directorate of the Science and Technology Facilities (STFC) Research Council High-Performance Computing DiRAC and as a chair of the Particle Physics Theory sub-panel of the STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship.