Great to have you joining the ESCS community! 
You can start by introducing yourself below. Write what you want, here are some suggestions of what to include to get you started:
I’ll start! I’m Loïc Lannelongue, I’m a postdoc in health data science at the University of Cambridge. The biology part is that I’m trying to combine medical imaging, genetics and machine learning to better understand cardiovascular diseases 
. But in practice, I spend most of my time working on the Green Algorithms project, which involves building tools and putting together resources to enable researchers to quantify and reduce the environmental impacts of their computing .
I’m hoping that this community becomes a place where anyone can come to chat about environmentally sustainable computing, ask questions and share awesome resources! And I don’t really know what it will become, but hopefully we can figure it out together 
A new fun fact I learned this week: the 2nd most-used four-wheel devices used in the UK (just behind cars) are… shopping trolleys! 
Your turn!
Hi! My name is Phil Ewels. I’m a product manager for open-source software at Seqera. I used to be a postdoc at the University of Cambridge (snap! 
) working with epigenomics research but started spending so much time building bioinformatics tools that it ended up becoming my full-time job 
. The projects I spend most of my time with now are:
Most of all, I love building software tools for researchers that are easy to use and useful. I’d love to collaborate with folks here to help bring environmentally friendly computing practices into those tools .
I’m from the UK but now based in the snowy North, in Sweden 
where we have nice green energy production 
My favourite fun fact is that a typical cloud weighs around a million tonnes.
Pleased to meet you all! 
Hi Everyone,
I’m Kirsty Pringle, I’m project manager of the Software Sustainability Institute, based in beautiful Edinburgh.
Before joining the SSI I was an academic then RSE working with climate and air quality models. I’m really interested in how we can make our research as sustainable as possible.
Great to see this community take shape!
Kirsty
Hi all,
I’m Andrew Walker, based in the Department of Earth Science at the University of Oxford. Part of my role is to provide training and support to researchers who do various types of computational science. I’m interested in how to best embed environmental sustainability to these activities. How do we make sure the next generation of computational researchers are aware of and minimise their environmental impact?
Please to meet everybody!
Hello
I’m James Byrne, Research Software Engineer Lead at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). BAS are based in Cambridge and I’m based in Somerset.
We’re a research and operational organisation, with science teams and running physical infrastructure throughout the polar regions to facilitate research requirements in the polar regions. As such we’re a multidisciplinary organisation scientifically.
The RSE team (so called the Digital Innovation Team) are looking at how digital infrastructure supports both research and operations, both effectively and sustainably. As such we are actively considering how we can build the blocks for future systems of systems approaches in a responsible manner, embodying responsible practice as a default approach to what we do. This might cover remote instrumentation, HPC, modelling and AI, among others.
Looking forward to being involved and being a potential test bed for real-world experimentation! Hoping that the community can coalesce so we can all share our experiences and best practices, as duplication of effort is the worst form of waste!!!
Looking forward to sharing some fun facts in time!
Hi everyone! I’m David Wilby, a Research Software Engineer at the British Antarctic Survey (and previously University of Sheffield).
I spend time collaborating with researchers to make their code more available, reproducible and performant as well as delivering training relating to good practice in research software.
Hi All,
I’m Oscar Seip, Research Software Community Officer at the SSI, based at the University of Manchester. Background in the Arts and Humanities.
Curious to see how this community develops!
Favourite (disputed) fact: Carrots used to be purple, yellow and white until Dutch farmers crossbred them to create orange carrots in support of William of Orange.
I’m David Stansby, currently lead (/only) data scientist for the Human Organ Atlas. Most of my work at the moment involves helping scientists work with the large amounts of data we generate (currently 230 TB and only ever increasing 
) My research group is based at UCL in London, and I’m based in Cambridge when I’m not in the office.
I joined because of the climate crisis, and wanting to do something at work that helps beyond choices in my personal life. Looking forward to meeting people and sharing knowledge and advice!
Fun fact: a swimming pool in Devon is being (partially) heated by waste heat from a data centre!
Hi there! I’m Michael Dales, I’m a Planetary Computing Fellow at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, and I mix my time helping ecologists implement methodologies for assessing things related to climate change, like impacts on biodiversity and tropical moist forests using satellite data, and then also doing research into what we can do so it means the ecologists don’t need us in the future
The work we do does have a large computer energy footprint, and so alongside our other aims in terms of ensuring timeliness and producability of these methodologies, it’d be desirable to also help both record impact and show a reduction via proper application of our methods.
I’m Santiago Madera, currently a postdoc in the Breast Cancer Bioinformatics group at the Institute of Cancer Research. My primary focus is in combining multiomic and public/in-house data to identify genetic interactions for the discovery of therapeutic vulnerabilities.
After I finished my PhD in molecular biology, I wanted to get closer to working in the field of environmental impact and climate science. Participating in the pilot program for Green DiSC allowed me to learn much about it without greatly shifting my career. I hope to gain training and spread knowledge on how to make computational research as sustainable as possible.
I’m James, Digital Humaities Prof at Southampton, and one of the co-founders of the Digital Humanities Climate Coalition. Our main big piece of work is a Toolkit https://sas-dhrh.github.io/dhcc-toolkit/. There is lots in there on computing. And more coming.
Hi, I’m Chris Collins, I lead the team that runs the HPC facility at the University of Hull. I’m interested in looking at how we could go forward with GreenDiSC. My team and I work closely with researchers and groups from across the University, and sustainability is often a topic that comes up in discussions and something that is very important to us. With our university adopting the LEAF scheme for wet labs, I think it is important to look at how we can acknowledge and then improve the impact of our HPC based research, and help our research colleagues do similar.
While my team sit in IT services, we often have different considerations to central IT and I wonder if we as a HPC facility would be considered as a group rather than a central team when it comes to GreenDiSC?
Hi everyone! I’m Jeremy Cohen, I’m a Research Fellow in the Department of Computing and Director of Research Software Engineering Strategy at Imperial College London.
I’m involved in a variety of research software community activities, leading our local community at Imperial and the Research Software London community. I’m also working on some technical training-related research and undertaking RSE “meta-research”.
From a sustainability perspective, I’m really keen to see how we can improve awareness of good sustainability practices within the communities that I’m part of.
Hi Chris, great to have you here!
While my team sit in IT services, we often have different considerations to central IT and I wonder if we as a HPC facility would be considered as a group rather than a central team when it comes to GreenDiSC?
This is a very good point, and we’re working on a separate set of criteria for teams like yours to address this. In the meantime, you can get started on the ones that seem most relevant to you, and I’ll be in touch once we have a better solution ready.
Hi everyone, I’m Emma, currently based in Japan. My background is in Computer Science and sustainability and I recently completed my MSc in Green Science and Engineering, where I researched Machine Learning for methane emissions prediction.
I joined this community to connect with like-minded individuals and learn more about ESCS.
A fun fact: The term “astronaut” comes from Greek words that mean “star” and “sailor.” 
Looking forward to engaging with you all!
Hi everyone - I’m Liz, and I’m an RSE at King’s College London. My research background is in bioinformatics/epigenomics.
The King’s e-Research team is planning to work towards GreenDiSC certification, so I joined this forum to be able to share resources and learn from others! I’m hoping to be able to have an impact by raising awareness of the impact of computational research among the researchers I work with and through the training we provide as a central team.
Hi everyone,
I’m Svenja Janke and I’m an RSE at University of Warwick. My research background is in computational chemistry.
I’m working with the HetSys Centre for Doctoral training towards a GreenDiSC certification, so I’m here to exchange resources and ideas about the process and sustainable computing in general.
Hi everyone,
I’m Jenny, I work as a project assistant within technical services at the University of Exeter and half of my role is as a member of our sustainable labs team. So I’m here to take part in Green DiSC as a ‘central team’ so that I can learn and then support our researchers to complete Green DiSC for their research groups.
Favourite fun fact: Wombat poo is cube-shaped (sorry not very ‘highbrow’)!