Giving to the Oxford e-Research Centre

Oxford e-Research Centre is a multidisciplinary data science research and education institute, part of the University of Oxford's Department of Engineering Science. We research and implement innovative digital methodologies, information and computational solutions for academic research and industrial applications. The Centre provides a world-leading environment for over 50 staff, including academics, students, data scientists, postdocs, as well as professional research software and knowledge engineers, who work together on interdisciplinary projects for the benefit of research and society.

Our expertise spans across data science domains and technologies. Via a broad range of collaborations, we deliver novel methodological, technical, social and policy advancements across disciplines: physical sciences and engineering; arts, humanities and social sciences; energy and environment; the biological and medical sciences; as well as information and library sciences.

Oxford e-Research Centre contains the Volunteer Computing Group, which exists to undertake projects where the general public may volunteer their computing time to assist scientists with research that requires a lot of computational power. The Seti@Home project is a well-known example of this, and there are many other volunteer computing projects throughout the world covering a wide range of scientific disciplines, many based around BOINC. The group runs ClimatePrediction.net, the world's largest climate forecasting experiment for the 21st producing predictions of the Earth's climate up to 2100 and testing the accuracy of climate models.