About Paul Leopardi

I am a computational scientist. That is, a computer scientist, an information technology professional, a computational mathematician, a combinatorialist, and a bioinformatician. I am interested in all these fields, as well as mathematics education, tertiary teaching, Clifford algebras, space science, science in general, innovation and entrepreneurship. I especially like it when people use my work to do something of value. 

I am currently working as a research software engineer at ACCESS-NRI. 

Brief history

Academic:

• Bachelor of Science (Honours Class 1 in Computer Science), University of New South Wales, 1983-10-05.

• Master of Commerce (Information Systems), University of New South Wales, 1990-05-04.

• Master of Science and Technology (Mathematics), University of New South Wales, 2002-04-09.

• Doctor of Philosophy (Mathematics), University of New South Wales, 2007-05-17, 

supervised by Professor Ian Sloan and Associate Professor Rob Womersley.

• ANU - Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mathematics, 2007-2011.

• Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, Australian National University, 2012-07-12.

• ANU - Research Fellow, Bioinformation Science, 2012-2014.

• ANU - Visiting Fellow, 2014.

• The University of Newcastle - Casual Academic, Visiting Fellow, 2014-2015.

• University of Melbourne - Honorary Fellow, 2017-2018.

Work:

• 1979: Australian Government, Department of Veterans Affairs - Clerk.

• 1982: UNSW - Casual Academic, Computer Science.

• 1983-1986: Telecom Australia - Computer Systems Officer.

• 1986-1990: Memorex-Telex - Systems Engineer.

• 1990-1995: Travel Industries Automated Systems - Systems Analyst.

• 1995-2001: Accenture - Consultant.

• 2001-2002: UNSW - Computer Systems Officer, Mathematics.

• 2002-2005: UNSW- Casual Academic, Mathematics

• 2005-2007: University of Sydney - Scientific Computing Officer, Physics.

• 2007-2012: ANU - Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mathematics.

• 2012-2014: ANU - Research Fellow, Bioinformation Science.

• 2015: The University of Newcastle - Casual Academic, Visiting Fellow, Mathematics.

• 2015-2018: Australian Government, Bureau of Meteorology - Scientific Application Analyst / User Support.

• 2018-2019: Australian Government, Bureau of Meteorology - Scientific Programmer - Numerical Prediction Systems.

• 2019-2023: ANU - National Computational Infrastructure - High Performance Computing Specialist.

• 2023-now: ANU - ACCESS-NRI - Research Software Engineer.