About David Moxey
Prof. David Moxey
RAEng/UKAEA Research Chair, King's College London
I am a Professor of Computational Engineering in the Department of Engineering at King’s College London, and the UKAEA/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in next-generation numerical methods for high-fidelity fusion modelling. My group works on the development of high-order finite element methods and their application to industry, particularly in fusion modelling and fluid dynamics. I am also a visiting professor in the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London.
Previously, I was a senior lecturer in engineering at the University of Exeter; a research and teaching fellow at Imperial College, working with Spencer Sherwin and Joaquim Peiró; and a Ph.D. and undergraduate student in the Mathematics Institute at the University of Warwick, where together with my supervisor Dwight Barkley I investigated the transition to turbulence in pipe flow. I am currently a member of the steering committee for the International Meshing Roundtable, the leading conference in mesh generation.
Interests and hobbies
Mainly I spend my free time on some kind of computing-related project. I like Apple hardware, Linux and open-source software, and code in a variety of languages (C/C++ and derivatives, and Python for the most part). I’m also involved in a number of personal and collaborative projects, which you can find on the software page.
Ever since I got a Canon 350D digital SLR for my 21st birthday I’ve been hooked on photography. My tastes, and my gear, have moved on since then, but I still do my best to get out and take photos when I can. My other non-computing interests are musical: I play trombone at a reasonable level, and can at least bash the piano around a bit. One recent project has been to construct my own electronic drum kit using a MegaDrum module.
About this site
This site has gone through a lot of evolutions since I set it up in 1997 as a pimply-faced youth:
- a straightforward static HTML site;
- a badly-coded PHP site;
- a slightly-better-coded PHP site;
- a WordPress site with a custom theme;
- and finally this one, which uses Jekyll, Bootstrap and Jekyll-Scholar for the publication lists.
I learned a lot along the way, and find it fairly funny that after all the fancy scripts I wrote, I’m back to plain static files. It’s easy to forget that the simpler route is often the best one, despite the lack of bells and whistles.