EMBL-EBI

IT Careers at the European Bioinformatics Institute

SPEAKER
Steven Newhouse

ABSTRACT
The talk will describe the European Bioinformatics Institute based south of Cambridge in the UK and the work it undertakes around storing and analysing big data. The different IT roles in developing technology and application software will be discussed alongside the available IT infrastructure.

SPEARK BIO
Dr Steven Newhouse is head of the Technical Services cluster (formed in 2013) that brings together the systems, web production and web development teams, and leads the Technology and Science Integration group which works to bring technology (both new innovations and established services) from Europe and around the world to further develop and support the Science taking place at EMBL-EBI.

Between 2008-2013 Steven was involved in the leadership of European Grid activities. Initially, as Technical Director of the EGEE-III project and then as Project Director of the EGI-InSPIRE project and Director of EGI.eu, an organisation established in 2010 to coordinate the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) for the benefit of its stakeholders and its diverse user communities.