Anne Trefethen is a Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Professor of Scientific Computing and Fellow of St Cross College at the University of Oxford.
She is the Pro-Vice-Chancellor responsible for the People and Digital Strategies of the University. She chairs the STFC e-Infrastructure Advisory Group. Prior to becoming a Pro-Vice Chancellor she was appointed as the University’s first Chief Information Officer in March 2012. Anne joined the University in 2005 to lead the development of the Oxford e-Research Centre where she served as the Director for over 6 years. Her research has been focused on high-performance numerical algorithms and large-scale scientific applications. She has contributed to the fields of parallel numerical algorithms, software design and engineering and most recently to energy-aware algorithms. In 2001 she became the Deputy Director of the UK e-Science Core Programme working with the Research Councils and DTI (now Innovate UK). She has spent ten years in the US at Thinking Machines Inc. and as Associate Director at the Theory Centre, Cornell University.
