Carol Booth

After a degree in Linguistics, Carol started her career in Marketing scientific instruments but quickly moved into IT training and after her Masters degree went on to work in Secondary Education, managing assessment data and Virtual Learning Environments. She joined Newcastle University in 2017, providing specialist support for research and teaching in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, with a particular interest in Linux. In 2022, Carol joined the newly formed Academic IT Consultancy Team, providing advice across all faculties for novel and complex IT systems.

In 2024 Carol joined the Research Software Engineering Team as a member of the specialist support team for Comet HPC, providing training, user support and HPC Service Development.

Carol is working towards being a Carpentries Instructor and is interested in learning new technologies and working with other RSEs to ensure that researchers at all career stages get the best value from HPC.