About

Hi, I’m Dr Ryan Pepper. I work as a software engineer in Nottingham, UK. I’m interested in music, play guitar in a band, and follow Nottingham Forest.

I currently work as a Principal Software Engineer at Autodesk where I work on large scale data pipelines for building generative models for CAD geometries. Previously I have worked in a variety of roles in the intersection of engineering, mathematics, physics and software across academia and industry, at companies such as Siemens and Onyx Insight.

I am a charity trustee at the Society for Research Software Engineering. I am passionate about the role that good software practices can play in scientific research.

Education

I hold an MSci degree in Theoretical Physics from the University of Birmingham, and I subsequently completed my PhD under Prof Hans Fangohr at the University of Southampton, where I was part of the CDT in Next Generation Computational Modelling. My research primarily looked into computational methods for studying magnetic nanostructures, and quasiparticles that formed within these under the competition between different energy terms in the classical model of Micromagnetism. My thesis is available here. As part of this, I contributed to several open source simulation packages, most notably Fidimag and Fmmgen.