DAFNI
Data and Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure (DAFNI)
The DAFNI programme supports advanced research into national infrastructure, including transport, water, and energy systems using computational modelling.
DAFNI aims to improve the efficiency, reliability and sustainability of infrastructure through better sharing and use of data, exploitation of simulation and optimization techniques, and engagement with stakeholders through visualisation.
DAFNI provides a computing platform to allow researchers to collaborate, to integrate their computational models to explore the social and environmental impacts of changes in infrastructure with much greater coverage and detail, and to deposit, share and use data collected in research projects and generated in models.
To learn more about the DAFNI Programme, please access the DAFNI website
“DAFNI provides a computing platform to allow researchers to do their compute better and more easily and at scale but I think it's more than that it's also a Community Showcase where people can bring their research together share it and build new collaborations to do things they couldn't do before."
Dr Brian Matthews, Head of DAFNI, STFC
Current Projects
Centre for Greening Finance and Investment
For more information, please visit UK Centre for Greening Finance and Investment (CGFI)
CROSSEU
For more information, please visit CROSSEU – Advancing climate resilience
NERC Digital Solutions
For more information, please visit £8m NERC Digital Solutions Programme – NERC Digital Solutions Programme scription
OpenLand
A newly funded opportunity.
The Climate Resilience Demonstrator programme
For more information, please visit Climate Resilience Demonstrator (CReDo) – Connected Places Catapult
UrbanAIR
A newly funded opportunity.
Past Projects
OpenCLIM
For more information, please visit OpenCLIM – Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
Related Case Studies
Meet the team
Aaron Larkins
Scientific Computing Graduate, DAFNI
Akhil Dubakunta
Systems team, DAFNI
Alison Oliver
Research Community Manager, CoSeC and DAFNI
Archit Mantry
Project Co-Ordinator, Project Management
Barbara Montanari, Dr.
Head of Programmes and Strategy
Bethan Perkins, Dr.
DAFNI Team Lead
Brian Matthews, Dr.
Programme Lead, DAFNI, Theme Lead, Data Engineering,
Caroline Haigh
Dev team, DAFNI
Elizabeth Mamtsits
Graduate, DAFNI
Jack Haydock
Dev team, DAFNI
Jens Jensen, Dr.
DAFNI Group Lead
Katie Cartmell
Delivery Manager, DAFNI
Kyle Stevenson, Dr.
User Liaison, DAFNI
Lewis Sampson, Dr.
Dev & Systems team, DAFNI
Lyndsey Harding
DAFNI Administrator, Business Administration
Marion Samler
Business Development Manager
Rose Dickinson
Technical Lead, DAFNI
Saiful Khan, Dr.
Senior Data Scientist, DAFNI
Sarah Byrne
Dev team, DAFNI
Server Kasap, Dr.
Systems team, DAFNI
