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After completing her D Phil thesis "A unified analysis of discretisation methods" at Oxford in 1984, Jennifer was awarded a Junior Research Fellowship at St. John's College, Oxford. After eighteen months, she left Oxford to take up a position in the Theoretical Physics Department of the National Radiological Protection Board in south Oxfordshire.
In 1987, Jennifer joined the Numerical Analysis Group at the Harwell Laboratory. The Group moved to the Atlas Centre at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in 1990. In 2007, she became the Group Leader, a role she continued until 2018 (with the Group changing its name to the Computational Mathematics Group in 2017). In 2011, Jennifer became an STFC Individual Merit Research Fellow. Much of her work at STFC and that of the Group has been funded by EPSRC research grants. She is the author of many software packages that are available within the HSL Mathematical Software Library.
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In 2016, Jennifer was appointed Professor of Mathematics at the University of Reading. She now works part time (2 days a week) for STFC and spends the rest of her time at the University of Reading. She was Director at Reading of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in the Mathematics of Planet Earth from 2016 to 2022. She is currently the Research Division Leader in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and a member of the Steering Committee of the Centre for the Mathematics of Planet Earth.
Jennifer is a SIAM Fellow. She was the President of SIAM UKIE (2021--23) and the Vice President (2015--17). She is also a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA) and was an elected member of the IMA Council (2013--16). She is an elected member of the IFIP Working Group 2.5 on Numerical Software, she served on the Women in Mathematics Committee of the London Mathematical Society (2006--14) and on the SIAM Program Committee (2013--16). She is an Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software and formerly an Associate Editor of the SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing (2016--2022).