Mr. Austin oversees product development at Accelrys, including the development of new and updated scientific algorithms and the creation and implementation of platform technologies to integrate the company's software solutions. He has over a dozen years of experience in managing projects and people to deliver high quality scientific software. He has coordinated multinational, multi-site global teams while retaining a focus on delivering commercial-quality applications for use in real-life industrial research. He has himself developed ground-breaking technology in areas including classical mechanics, force-field parametrization, Grand-Canonical Monte Carlo simulations, semi-empirical quantum techniques, and scattering simulation. Mr. Austin worked as a scientific consultant for Cambridge Molecular Design Ltd. before joining Molecular Simulations Inc. and then Accelrys. He holds a degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, UK, and did postgraduate research in theoretical solid state physics at the University's Cavendish Laboratories. |