Peter Heywood

Research Software Engineer

Peter is a Research Software Engineer who joined the RSE team in 2018. He has a background is in Computer Science, having completed his MComp and PhD at the University of Sheffield.

Peter’s core focus is in performance optimiastion, specializing in GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) accelerated computing, High Performance Computing (HPC), and Agent-Based Modelling (ABM).

He is a core developer and maintainer of FLAME GPU, a software framework that enables researchers to run high-performance, large-scale agent-based simulations while abstracting the complexities of GPU programming away from the modeller.