Jon Nield, Ph.D. - Scientific Events organiser

During his career from 1996 onwards, Jon facilitated the design, identification and purchasing for six laboratory spaces (15 rooms). The first involved the newly arrived IC-CSB group of Prof. MvH at Imperial College London (the period October 1996-February 1997), during which time desks, PCs, wet lab equipment, electron microscope liquid nitrogen facilities, were co-ordinated, ordered and personally installed, in parallel with his research. He was awarded a small financial bonus in recognition of these efforts, which was unexpected, but gratefully received. The second was in January 1999, as workstation / LAN identifier and co-ordinator maintaining a PC cluster (20 machines), its 100BaseT network and associated peripherals (DVD+/-R,RW/ CDR-W/ SCSI/ scanners/ printers/ NICs, etc.). He learnt Tru64 Unix system administration, configuring 6 Compaq EV6/67 class XP1000 workstations, incl. stereographics 3D modelling. See his Computers page for more details.     For his independent career in Science, he replicated such activites for two Faculty positions and at least 5 major laboratory moves, both at Imperial College London and Queen Mary University of London - moving his laboratory, as required given managerial intervention (in 2002, 2004, 2007, 2013, 2018). His previous (2003) Beowulf-style (offline) cluster of gigabit (1000baseT) switched PCs (60 CPUs; 125 GHz; 44 Gb DDR; 4 Tb) was deprecated, first in favour of an off-line, self-build, scaleable, quad-socket G34 opteron solution (160 nodes, 256 Gb, NAS) which was constantly added to (funding dependent from 2013 to 2018, deprecated 2019).

Jon has a organised a social, research and commercial events (not an exhaustive list): 1. Departmental Student Representative (1992) - Life Sciences Summer Ball (125 people). 2. Hall of Residence Subwarden (1993-1998) - Five Dinner Dances (75-80 people); Leader of student parties overseas; wine tastings. 3. Post-graduate Representative (1993-1995) - Departmental Christmas Party (80 people). 4. Post-doctoral Researcher (1997-2000) - Initiated/organised lab retreat (20 people); other seminars. 5. Current position (2002) - Poster organiser; Royal Society Meeting (100+ people; 20 posters). 6. Divisional seminar series organiser (2005-2007) - 26 lectures/speakers 7. Divisional representative on the Faculty Safety Committee (2005-2007) 8. Divisional representative on the Faculty GM-safety committee (2005-2007) 9. Co-ordinator (2007) - PS07 international conference satellite meeting (350+ people; 46 posters). 10. Local organiser (2007) - Christmas Photosynthesis meeting, Queen Mary, University of London. 11. Local organiser (2008) - International Photosynthesis 'Symposium' at Queen Mary. 12. Seminar host (2010-2014) - A number of visiting international and national Photosynthesis speakers. 13. Royal Society funded event (2012) for local East End headteachers, based on Microscopy and recent research. 14. Local organiser (2008-2020) Biological TEM users forums, internal and external discussion events. 15. Public outreach (2015-2020): light microscope lab (7 microscopes; training) +book prizes given each year, at a local Primary school.