I'm James C. Womack. As a research software and infrastructure engineer, I build and maintain robust software, platforms, and infrastructure to enable and accelerate research. My academic background is in computational chemistry, with a focus on software and methods for simulating molecules and materials at the quantum level.
I am currently an AI Supercomputing Infrastructure Engineer at the Bristol Centre for Supercomputing (BriCS). My role is focused on the development and operation of infrastructure and scalable software platforms for BriCS's supercomputing facilities, including Isambard-AI and Isambard 3.
- Ask RSE, the University of Bristol Research Software Engineering (RSE) team's free-at-the-point-of-use research software consultancy service, supporting researchers to develop robust, high-quality research software
- Entos Qcore, a modern quantum chemistry package written in C++17 with TBB parallelism
- ONETEP, a package for performing large-scale quantum chemistry calculations with linear-scaling computational cost (Fortran 2003, MPI+OpenMP)
- CASTEP, a widely-used quantum chemistry and materials modelling package (Fortran 95, MPI)
- DL_MG, an open-source multigrid Poisson solver library used in ONETEP and CASTEP (Fortran, MPI+OpenMP)
- Intception, an open-source package that generates code for evaluating common integrals in quantum chemistry from an abstract mathematical specification (Python, generates C)
You can find more information about my skills, background, and publications on LinkedIn, ORCID, and Google Scholar.



