Fergus McClean, Newcastle University
In a special interview Fergus McClean shares his experience of using DAFNI. He is a research associate at Newcastle University working on surface water flood modelling as part of a UK Climate Resilience Programme funded project called Open Climate Impact Framework (OpenCLIM). He also works on flooding-related projects around the world, including in Uganda (Science for Humanitarian Emergencies and Resilience) and Malaysia (Techno-Economic framework for Resilient and Sustainable Electrification). His research focus is on flood impacts and model sensitivity analysis.
Fergus McClean
ITRC’s NISMOD moves on to DAFNI’S next-generation computing platform, ushering in an exiting new phase of collaboration and development
Catherine Dhanjal writes about the importance of NISMOD moving onto DAFNI and the highlights of the event on 21st Januray 2021 that celebrated it.
Catherine Dhanjal
Craig Robson, Newcastle University
Super user Craig Robson’s experiences of using DAFNI
Craig Robson writes about his experience of using DAFNI. He is a Research Associate of the School of Engineering at the Newcastle University. He has worked across a range of projects related to complex networks, infrastructure network resilience, spatial data management and data visualisation. Awarded a PhD in 2017 from Newcastle University entitled ‘Robustness of Hierarchical Spatial Critical Infrastructure Networks’, focused on the resilience of critical spatial infrastructures to geographic hazards, developing the required analytical methods and associated data management architectures.
Craig Robson
DAFNI Champion – Juste Raimbault, UCL
Preventing disease spread on public transport
Juste is based at the Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London (UCL) and his work as a Champion for DAFNI involves integrating the MATSim multi-agent transport simulation framework into DAFNI. He will develop the MATSim model to apply it to the current Covid crisis, using the EpiSim model to add pandemic indicators to travel indicators and to model them on DAFNI.
His aim is to have a generic multimodal transport model which can be applied to any UK city. Ultimately, he aims to use the EpiSim variant of MATSim to integrate epidemiological indicators into the transport system modelling, enabling users to test policies and interventions to limit disease spread on public transport.
Juste Raimbault explains the scope of his work as a DAFNI champion.
Juste Raimbault
DAFNI Champion – Simon Jude, Cranfield University
DAFNI’s interaction with the Cranfield Living Laboratory and Urban Observatory
Simon is based at Cranfield University, in the School of Water, Energy and Environment. Within that theme he’s based in the Centre for Environmental and Agri-informatics where he leads a group focusing on risk and decision making.
He also leads Cranfield’s Urban Observatory, which is somewhat unusual in that it’s in a rural location and is a self-contained microcosm of a city with its own airport, and infrastructure, including a water treatment plant and solar farm.
His work as a DAFNI Champion involves developing a pilot Digital Twin using DAFNI to link real-time and near real-time water quality data from Cranfield Urban Observatory and the National Water and Water Treatment Test Facility.
Simon Jude
DAFNI Champion – Adrian Hickford, University of Southampton
Adrian Hickford explains the scope of his work as a DAFNI champion.
Adrian Hickford
DAFNI Champion – Lauren McMillan, UCL
Lauren McMillan explains the scope of her work as a DAFNI champion.
Lauren McMillan
DAFNI Champion – Andrey Postnikov, UCL
Andrey Postnikov explains the scope of his work as a DAFNI champion.
Andrey Postnikov
DAFNI Champion – Cristian Genes, University of Sheffield
Cristian Genes explains the scope of his work as a DAFNI champion.
Cristian Genes
Meet the DAFNI Champions
Marion Samler, Partnership Manager, introduces the DAFNI champions programme.
Marion Samler
The DAFNI platform now has over 2PB of storage
James Hannah, DAFNI Linux Systems and Service Manager, explains what hardware has been procured for DAFNI
James Hannah
What you can do on DAFNI
Tom Gowland, DAFNI Pilot Lead and Software Engineer, explains what can be done on DAFNI
Tom Gowland
DAFNI’s data roadmap
Noel Vizcaino, DAFNI’s research software engineer, explains the strategy behind DAFNI’s data roadmap
Noel Vizcaino
Introducing DAFNI’s Security Service
Pete Feeney, DAFNI’s security engineer, explains why security is at the heart of DAFNI.
Pete Feeney
Automated demand forecasting model for new local train stations
Dr Simon Blainey, Associate Professor in Transportation at the University of Southampton, explains how this new model makes demand forecasting faster, cheaper and more accurate.
Dr Simon Blainey
Interested in collaborating with DAFNI?
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