Catherine Inglis

E-mail: cafi at epcc.ed.ac.uk

What I do at EPCC

I co-ordinate the HPC-Europa Transnational Access programme, an EC-funded initiative which allows European researchers to visit a research group with similar interests in another country for up to 3 months, while gaining access to some of the most powerful supercomputing facilities in Europe.

You can find out more about the HPC-Europa visitor programme by watching this video. You can also read about our current visitors, and read the project reports of our past visitors. A recent EPCC News article highlighted the lasting impact on the research careers of some of our past visitors.

The closing dates for HPC-Europa2 in 2011 are: 15 February, 1 May, 15 September, 15 November.

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What else I have done at EPCC

I previously co-ordinated the TRACS (Training and Research in Advanced Computing Systems) programme at EPCC, and was also the co-ordinator of the (now discontinued) Summer Scholarship Programme for several years.

I also worked on TT@MED, an accompanying measure to the EUTIST-M project, focusing on technology transfer to the medical sector.

What I did before EPCC

I grew up in St Andrews and Dundee, and have an MA in Modern and Medieval Languages (Spanish and French) at Queens' College, Cambridge and a Postgraduate Diploma in European Marketing and Languages from Napier University, now called Edinburgh Napier University. Before joining EPCC, I worked in the European Helpcentre at IBM Greenock, providing technical support by telephone to PC users in Spain.

I have also spent two years teaching English in Spain, which was great fun. I spent the first year in the remote Celtic region of Galicia - which is very similar to Scotland: green, mountainous, and very rainy! - in the town of Lugo with its famous Roman wall , which was declared a World Heritage Site (Patrimonio da Humanidade) by UNESCO on 30th November 2000. While living there I was the English language assistant teacher at the Escola Universitaria de Maxisterio (or Escola Universitaria de Formación do Profesorado), the teacher training school which is part of the Lugo campus of the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela.

I spent my second year in Aranda de Duero , a small town in the province of Burgos, where I worked at the Escuela CF Idiomas. Aranda is in the famous Ribera del Duero wine region (one of the six key wine-producing regions of Spain).

I took part in the Summer School in Romanian Language, Culture and Civilization at Universitatea de Vest din Timisoara in 1999 - here is my trip report.

Finally, here is a link to some photos.