"I am delighted that the Institute recognises the centrality of computational methods to help meet the challenges of environmental change, food security and sustainable development.

Risk modeller Dr Rupert Hough has been appointed to the leadership of the Information and Computational Sciences group at the James Hutton Institute, following the semi-retirement of Dr David Marshall.

The James Hutton Institute's Information and Computational Sciences group brings together an exceptional combination of scientific skills and expertise, ranging from genome-scale bioinformatics to landscape-scale geoinformatics.

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