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Professor Jarvis studied at London, Oxford and Durham Universities before taking his first Lectureship at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory. Here he worked on the development of performance tools for the BSP programming library, as well as teaching at Brasenose, Lincoln and Keble Colleges. After a short secondment to Microsoft Research in Cambridge, he joined the University of Warwick, rising to Professor in 2009. Professor Jarvis acted as Director of Research from 2008 to 2013, leading the Department to rank 2nd (out of 89 UK Computing Departments) in the 2014 UK Research Excellence Framework (REF). In 2013 he was appointed Chair of Department. Professor Jarvis has been a Visiting Exchange Professor at New York University since 2017 and is currently engaged in the establishment of the Alan Turing Institute, the UK's national institute for data science. He is presently Deputy Pro Vice Chancellor (Research) at the University of Warwick.