Mark A. Girolami (born 1963) is a British

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and

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. He has held the Sir Kirby Laing Professorship of Civil Engineering in the Department of Engineering at the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

since 2019. He has been the chief scientist of the

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since 2021. He is a

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Christ's College, Cambridge Christ's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college includes the Master, the Fellows of the College, and about 450 undergraduate and 170 graduate students. The college was founded by William Byngham in 1437 as ...

, and winner of a

Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award The Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award was an award made by the Royal Society from 2000 to 2020. It was administered by the Royal Society and jointly funded by the Wolfson Foundation and the UK Office of Science and Technology, to provide ...

. Girolami is a founding editor of the journal ''Data-Centric Engineering'', and also served as the program director for data-centric engineering at Turing.

Education

Girolami studied at the

University of Glasgow , image = UofG Coat of Arms.png , image_size = 150px , caption = Coat of arms Flag , latin_name = Universitas Glasguensis , motto = la, Via, Veritas, Vita , ...

and spent ten years working for IBM as an engineer from 1985 to 1994. After this he undertook, on a part-time basis, a PhD in

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whilst working at the

University of Paisley , mottoeng = Learning is success , established = 1897 (as Paisley College of Technology) 1992 (granted university status) 2007 (renamed to UWS) , former_names = Paisley College of Technology, Paisley Co ...

Career and research

After his PhD, Girolami held senior positions at the University of Glasgow, and

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

. Before joining the University of Cambridge, Girolami worked at

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Selected publications

His publications include: * * * * * * * * * *

References

1963 births Living people Alumni of the University of Glasgow Alumni of the University of the West of Scotland Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award holders Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge Engineering professors at the University of Cambridge IBM people {{UK-statistician-stub