Professor John P. Morrison BSc, MSc, PhD, Dip TLHE, Senior MACM, Senior MIEEE John Morrison is the founder and director of the Centre for Unified Computing. He is a co-founder and director of the Boole Centre for Research in Informatics. He was a co-founder and co-director of Grid-Ireland, a Principal Investigator in the Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce and the coordinator of the H2020 Cloudlightning Project. Prof. Morrison has held a Science Foundation of Ireland Principal Investigator award and has published widely in the field of Parallel Distributed and Grid Computing. He has been the guest editor on many journals including the Journal of SuperComputing and the Journal of Scientific Computing. He is on the Editorial Board of Multi-Agent and Grid Systems: An International Journal, published by ISO Press, and the International Journal of Computational Intelligence: Theory and Practice (IJCITP). He is a senior member of the ACM and a senior member of the IEEE. Prof Morrison is a member of the I2Lab Advisory Board in the University of Central Florida. He has served on dozens of international conference programme committees and is a co-founder of the International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing. Prof. Morrison is currently an investigator in the SFI/FexCo funded FinTechNext Project, in which his team is applying state of the art technology to support the next generation of financial technology services.

John Morrison is the founder and director of the Centre for Unified Computing. He is a co-founder and director of the Boole Centre for Research in Informatics. He was a co-founder and co-director of Grid-Ireland, a Principal Investigator in the Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce and the coordinator of the H2020 Cloudlightning Project. Prof. Morrison has held a Science Foundation of Ireland Principal Investigator award and has published widely in the field of Parallel Distributed and Grid Computing. He has been the guest editor on many journals including the Journal of SuperComputing and the Journal of Scientific Computing. He is on the Editorial Board of Multi-Agent and Grid Systems: An International Journal, published by ISO Press, and the International Journal of Computational Intelligence: Theory and Practice (IJCITP). He is a senior member of the ACM and a senior member of the IEEE. Prof Morrison is a member of the I2Lab Advisory Board in the University of Central Florida. He has served on dozens of international conference programme committees and is a co-founder of the International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing. Prof. Morrison is currently an investigator in the SFI/FexCo funded FinTechNext Project, in which his team is applying state of the art technology to support the next generation of financial technology services The following is a short list of the research initiatives that he has succeeded in funding. Boole Centre for Research in Informatics Funded under PRTLI-3. the BCRI supports research in Computer Science and Mathematics. The centre actively encourages interdisciplinary research and has initiated projects with Electrical Engineering, BioScience, Medicine, Civil Engineering, Dentistry, Environmental Science and atmospheric Chemistry. The centre houses and manages large scale compute and data facilities for the benefit