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Peter R. Taylor University of Melbourne Australia

Peter Taylor was born in England and lived there until 1965, when his family emigrated to Australia. He completed high school and university studies in Sydney, and then spent three years in Sweden and Germany before taking up a position in Melbourne, Australia, with CSIRO. In 1985 Taylor accepted a position in California, with ELORET Institute of Palo Alto, which involved working at NASA Ames Research Center. In mid-1992 he moved to San Diego, taking up a position as senior scientist at General Atomics, working at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, where he rose to be a deputy director, as well as a Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego. Taylor also served as Chief Applications Scientist of the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure, a multi-institute collaboration funded from the successor to NSF's national supercomputer centers' program. In 2002 he moved to England, to join the faculty at the University of Warwick, where he was Royal Society Wolfson Professor of Chemistry and Chief Scientist for Warwick's Centre for Scientific Computing. In 2010 Taylor accepted the position of Director of the new Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative and moved again to Australia.