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Anne Trefethen, Director, Oxford e-Research Centre

Professor Anne Trefethen is a Director of the Oxford e-Research Centre. Before joining them Anne was Director of the UK e-Science Core Programme, having been the Deputy Director for four years. The Core Programme focussed on the generic issues for e-Science applications and Grid infrastructure through the development of appropriate middleware and infrastructure in collaboration with UK industry.

Anne has worked for almost 20 years in industry and academia with a focus on numerical algorithms and software, computational science and high performance computing. Anne held the position of Vice-President of Research and Development at NAG Ltd, helping to develop a range of mathematical, statistical and high performance libraries. Other positions held by Anne include Associate Director for Scientific Computational Support at the Cornell Theory Center and Research Scientist at both the Theory Centre and Thinking Machines Corporation.