Florian is a Computational Scientist in the Software Performance Optimisation group at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London, United Kingdom. He is a devoted Pythonista and one of the main developers of the PyOP2 framework for performance-portable unstructured mesh-based computations and the Firedrake framework for portable finite element computations. His research interests include domain-specific languages and compilers for partial differential equations, finite-element assembly on multi- and many-core architectures and automated runtime code generation from high-level specifications.