Andy Turner

Position: Research Software Engineer
Areas of expertise: Software development; computer arithmetic; data processing; parallel programming; computational modelling; data visualisation; research data management
Email: a.g.d.turner@leeds.ac.uk
Faculty profile link: https://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/index.html
Website: GitHub Profile; ORCID Profile; Google Scholar Profile; Linked In Profile; Good Reads Profile

Andy joined the team in June 2023 to specialise as a research sofware enginner after specialising in computational geography as a research officer based in the School of Geography for 25 years.

He enjoys team work, problem solving, supporting research(ers) and developing research software.

Andy is familiar with Java, Python, Fortran, R, Matlab, TypeScript/JavaScript, C/C++, Ruby, Julia and Rust.

In 2024 Andy led the development of MXG as described in this case study.

In 2025 Andy is working with Andrew on the RiboCode project developing a data analysis and visualisation tool.