1. Peter V Coveney is a British chemist who is Professor of Physical Chemistry, Honorary Professor of Computer Science, and the Director of the Centre for Computational Science and Associate Director of the Advanced Research Computing Centre at University College London.
Peter Coveney is a Professor of Applied High Performance Computing at University of Amsterdam and Professor Adjunct at the Yale School of Medicine, Yale University.
Peter Coveney is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Member of Academia Europaea.
Peter Coveney has shown outstanding leadership across these fields, manifested through running multiple initiatives and multi-partner interdisciplinary grants, in the UK, Europe and the US.
Peter Coveney was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Oxford in 1985 for his work on Semiclassical methods in scattering and spectroscopy.
Peter Coveney has held positions at University of Oxford, Princeton University, Schlumberger and QMUL, and currently holds positions at UCL, UvA and Yale, as well as acting as a Member of several academic councils in the UK and EU.
Peter Coveney worked with Ilya Prigogine at the Free University of Brussels and went on to publish work with the mathematician Oliver Penrose on rigorous foundations of irreversibility and the derivation of kinetic equations based on chaotic dynamical systems.
Peter Coveney collaborated with Jonathan Wattis on extensions and generalisations of the Becker-Doring and Smoluchowski equations for the kinetics of aggregation-fragmentation processes which they applied to a wide range of phenomena, from self-reproducing micelles and vesicles to a scenario for the origin of the RNA world in which they showed that self-reproducing sequences of RNA can spontaneously arise from an aqueous mixture of the RNA nucleotide bases.
At Schlumberger Cambridge Research, Peter Coveney initiated new lines of research in which advanced computational methods played a central role.
From 2006, Peter Coveney moved away from studying oilfield fluids to investigate blood flow in the human body, including the brain.
Peter Coveney's work covers numerous applications of these methods in advanced materials and biomedical domains.
Peter Coveney has noted that classical molecular dynamics is chaotic and to make robust predictions from it requires the use of ensembles at all times.
In recent years, Peter Coveney has been a leading player in the development and application of validation, verification and uncertainty quantification to computer simulation codes across a wide range of domains.
Peter Coveney has become active in quantum computing, where he is specifically concerned with seeking to assess the feasibility of realising quantum advantage from its application to the solution of molecular electronic structure problems.
Peter Coveney led the EPSRC RealityGrid e-Science Pilot Project and its extension project, and the EU FP7 Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellent.
Peter Coveney is the Principal Investigator on the EU Horizon 2020 projects Verified Exascale Computing for Multiscale Applications, "VECMA" and Centre of Excellence in Computational Biomedicine,"CompBioMed2".
Peter Coveney has been the recipient of US NSF and DoE, and European DEISA and PRACE supercomputing awards.
Peter Coveney has chaired the UK Collaborative Computational Projects Steering Panel and served on the programme committee of the 2002 Nobel Symposium on self-organization.
Peter Coveney is a founding member of the UK Government's e-Infrastructure Leadership Council and a Medical Academy Nominated Expert to the UK Prime Minister's Council for Science and Technology on Data, Algorithms and Modelling, which has led to the creation of the London-based Alan Turing Institute.
Peter Coveney has co-authored three popular science books with his long term friend and collaborator, Roger Highfield:.