Selected external professional activities
Membership of editorial boards
Associate Editor for SIAM Journal of Matrix Analysis and Applications (2018 - 2024)
Associate Editor, Research Spotlights, SIAM Review (2016 - 2024)
Professional societies
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
Member since 1989Chair, Board of Trustees (2023 - 2024)
Member, Board of Trustees Executive Committee (2021 - 2024)
Member, Financial Management Committee (2021 - 2024)
Elected Member, Board of Trustees (2019 - 2024)
Elected Vice Chair of the Activity Group on Linear Algebra (2016 - 2018)
Member, Committee on Programs and Conferences (2106 - 2018)
Member, Gene Golub Summer School Committee (2015 - 2018)
Co-founder and Faculty Adviser, Strathclyde Student Chapter (2011 - 2016)
Elected Member, Council (2007-2009)
Elected Secretary/Treasurer, UK and Eire Section (2002 - 2004)
Edinburgh Mathematical Society (EMS)
Member since 1993Member of General Committee (2001-2004)
Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA)
Fellow since 2008Invited speaker, IMA Information Days for Senior School Pupils (1993-2000)
European Women in Mathematics (EWM)
Member since 2010International Linear Algebra Society (ILAS)
Member since 2020Member of Nominating Committee (2020)
Conference organisation
Co-organiser, ICIAM Workshop on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Glasgow (2022)
Co-organiser, Biennial Conference in Numerical Analysis conference series, Glasgow (2009- 2019)
Co-organiser, International Centre for Mathematical Sciences Workshop on Mathematics for Measurement, Edinburgh (2017)
Co-organiser, Durham-London Mathematical Society Symposium, Durham (2008)
Local organiser, XVth Householder Symposium on Numerical Linear Algebra, Peebles (2002)
Membership of external steering committees
Member of the Scientific Council of CERFACS, Toulouse, France (2024)
Membership of conference scientific programme committees
Householder Committee (2022 - 2024)
International Conference on Preconditioning Techniques for Scientific and Industrial Applications, Chemnitz, Germany (2022)
11th International Conference on Advanced Mathematical and Computational Tools in Metrology and Testing, Glasgow (2017)
Sixth International Conference on Numerical Algebra and Scientific Computing, Zhejiang University, P.R. China (2016)
SIAM Conference on Applied Linear Algebra, Atlanta, USA (2015)
Joint SIAM/Royal Spanish Mathematical Society/Catalan Society of Mathematics/Spanish Society of Applied Mathematics Meeting on Emerging Topics in Dynamical Systems and Partial Differential Equations, Barcelona, Spain (2010)
Service to National and International Review Bodies
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK
Chair of Mathematical Sciences Prioritisation Panel (2011, 2012, 2015, 2022)Chair of Mathematical Sciences Fellowship Interview Panel (2021)
Chair of Mathematical Sciences Fellowship Funding Panel (2019)
Member of Mathematical Sciences Programme Grant Interview Panel (2016)
Member of Mathematical Sciences Prioritisation Panel (2008)
Member of Peer Review College (since 2007)
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