Rob Baxter
Development Manager
Rob Baxter was Development Manager for the Software Sustainability Institute. In this role, he managed the setup, tracking and conclusion of the rolling portfolio of software projects and consultancy-based activities that were and are central to the Institute's mission.
Rob has extensive EU project experience, both in writing proposals and in co-ordinating and managing their successful delivery (ADMIRE, EUDAT).
He is also the Software Development Group Manager at EPCC where he oversees a broad range of novel technology projects in distributed computing and data management. Previously, he worked for OMII-UK as Project Manager on the OGSA-DAI project.
Rob has a background in programming scientific and engineering applications to run on large computers. Prior to this he was a theoretical physicist, receiving his PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1993.