My new job at The University of Sheffield
For almost 10 years now I have been working in scientific applications support at The University of Manchester. It’s been a wonderful decade in which I’ve learned a lot, made many good friends and worked on dozens of collaborations with academic and IT colleagues alike. Since I live in Sheffield, I’ve also spent just over a year of my life on public transport!
It is, however, time for me to move on and I am delighted to announce that, as of 2nd March, I will be moving to The University of Sheffield. My new position is a joint venture between Sheffield’s Corporate Information and Computing Services (CICS) department and Professor Neil Lawrence, an expert in machine learning and computational biology.
I’m really excited about this new position — there’s going to be research computing support, open data science, high performance computing, software carpentry, teaching, code consultancy, GPUs, Python, MATLAB and lots more of the hardware and software technologies that I love so much. The fact that my commute is being reduced from 4 hours a day to 30 minutes a day is just the icing on the cake!
I’d like to publicly thank everyone at The University of Manchester for making my time there so wonderful. The University of Manchester is a truly amazing place in which to work and is chock-full of the most important resource of any organisation – creative, intelligent, driven, passionate and friendly people. I’ve still got 3 months to go before I leave so let’s make sure we get together at least one more time before I go.
Congratulations, Mike, especially on the reduced commute. It’s a lot of life time.
:-( for us :-) for you!
Love your blog! Wish you a great success in your new venture!
I am deilighted! I do hope we shall see you in Sheffield Physics after March.
Gillian
Really looking forward to having you in Sheffield!
Congratulations, Mike.
Does LinkedIn help finding the position?
Thanks to everyone for all the kind words.
@oversky – LinkedIn didn’t help me get this one. It did, however, get me quite a few expressions of interest — none of which I took further because I can currently be very selective. The main reason I turned people down was location — I didn’t want to swap one huge commute for another.
Congratulations on the new job.
I once caught the train from Manchester to Nottingham, via Sheffield, and it was absolutely packed full of commuters. I wouldn’t have stood the journey for 10 days, let alone 10 years.
I am sure you will be sadly missed by all the people you have helped at Manchester.
Congratulations on your shorter commute, and best wishes in your new position.
Congratulations Mike! A loss for Manchester, but a real win-win for Sheffield University and for you.
Congratulations and best of luck!
Congrats, Mike!! I found these news from a pingback on Neil’s blog, I am thrilled to hear this worked out! Indeed a loss for Manchester, but a win for Sheffield, and I think after 10y of that commute, you’d more than earned it :)
congrats ,we learned a lot from you and hope you accelerate commenting here :)
Hi Mike, I wanted to ask you some advice about using Matlab at Manchester, you were supporting my EngD student. You are missed, I’ve seen how carefully and detailed all your Mathlab pages are here at Manchester.
Hi Patricia. I’ve emailed you to see if I can help out with your MATLAB issue.