Staff profile - Professor Keith G Jeffery
Biographical Sketch
Professor Keith G Jeffery CEng, CITP, FGS, FBCS, HFICS
Keith Jeffery is currently Director of IT and International Strategy of STFC (Science and Technology Facilities Council), based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in the UK.
Previously he was Director of IT and Head of Business and Information Technology Department (15m€ p.a. turnover, 140 staff, 1100 servers, 360,000 users) providing services to STFC, national services to the UK academic community and undertaking research and development projects funded by the UK Research Councils, government departments, the European Commission and commerce and industry internationally.
Keith has extensive experience in consultancy, project management and product development both within the public sector and the commercial sector. He has been involved actively in EC-funded projects as reviewer, coordinator, system architect and in technical and exploitation roles. He was editor-in-chief and later chairman for the Next Generation GRIDs expert group of DG INFSO F2.
Previous positions included running a Division for Information Systems Engineering, leading a database and office systems service group, running a group using computing for environmental science data storage, retrieval, analysis and modelling, and leading a team providing a computing service to the UK Geological Survey.
Keith holds a BSc in Geology, a PhD in Geology (with a very large computing content!) and is a Fellow of both the Geological Society of London and the British Computer Society. He is a Chartered Engineer and Chartered IT Professional. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Irish Computer Society.
He is president of ERCIM (2004- ) and president of euroCRIS (2002- ). He is Chair of the Alliance for Permanent Access to the Records of Science and Executive Secretary of ERF (European research Facilities). He is a trustee emeritus (past secretary and vice-president) of the Endowment Board of the VLDB (Very Large Database) Conference, and is a member of the boards controlling the EDBT (Extending Database Technology) conference and CAiSE (Conference on Advanced Systems Engineering). He is a member of the SOFSEM Steering Committee.
Keith serves on several programme committees for international and national conferences, he reviews material for journals and books and reviews research proposals for several countries. He has numerous publications in refereed journals, books and conference proceedings.
He holds the positions of Honorary Professor of Computer Science at Cardiff University, Heriot-Watt University, and at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
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Page last updated: 25 March 2010
by Keith Jeffery
