advantage from its application to the solution of molecular electronic structure problems. This field is currently a very active one, but confronting theory with actual quantum devices is arguably the most important aspect of work in this field today, despite the paucity of people participating in such research. There are many problems which must be addressed, and he and his team are currently dealing with noise reduction and implementing error mitigation as extensively as possible on a range of quantum device architectures. He has also led several large-scale international projects, most notably, the EPSRC RealityGrid e-Science Pilot Project and its extension project, and the EU FP7 Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) Network of Excellent. He is currently the Principal Investigator on several grants from the European Commission and other agencies, including the EU Horizon 2020 projects Verified Exascale Computing for Multiscale Applications, "VECMA" and Centre of Excellence in Computational Biomedicine,"CompBioMed2". The original CompBioMed initiative was launched after Coveney and his team successfully challenged the EU following a rejected grant proposal. He has also been the recipient of many US NSF and DoE, and European DEISA and PRACE supercomputing awards, providing him and his research group access to several petascale computers and the world's first public exascale computer, Frontier. Coveney has also chaired the UK Collaborative Computational Projects Steering Panel and has served on the programme committees of many conferences, most notably the 2002 Nobel Symposium on self-organization. He is a founding member of the UK Government's e-Infrastructure Leadership Council and a Medical Academy Nominated Expert to the UK Prime Minister's Council for Science and Technology on Data, Algorithms and Modelling, which has led to the creation of the London-based Alan Turing Institute. References British physical chemists Academics of University College London Living people Alumni of the University of Oxford Computational chemists 1958 births