PROFILE

Michael Resch, director of the Stuttgart High Performance Computer Centre

Linda Petzold, professor at the University of California and member of the US National Academy of Engineering

John Murphy profiles Louis Gross, a mathematical ecologist who's studying the restoration of the Everglades.

Peter Gumbsch, professor at the university of Karlsruhe and head of Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials

Pavel Pevzner, chair professor of computer science, University of California, San Diego

John Murphy profiles Bill Trowbridge, for whom entrepreneurial success has come relatively late in his career.

John Murphy meets scientific computing's leading 'celebrity', Cleve Moler, co-founder of The MathWorks

John Murphy profiles Professor Henry Schaefer, a leading light in theoretical computational chemistry at the University of Georgia

Andre Geim, director, Centre for Mesoscience and Nanotechnology, University of Manchester

Rob Meyer, CEO, Numerical Algorithms Group