Simon Lock

Dr Simon Lock is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computer Science, University of Bristol. His research and public engagement focus on pragmatic software engineering, open data, citizen science, and interactive applications for social spaces, with an emphasis on data visualization and IoT platforms. He can be contacted at simon.lock@bristol.ac.uk.

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Simon's research interests span software engineering applications in educational and social contexts, including engineering education best practices, teaching and learning innovations, and the use of technology for public engagement. His publications (via ORCID) include seminal works on planetary collisions, lunar formation, and tidal evolution, indicating interdisciplinary contributions bridging computational methods and planetary science.

His recent work explores planetary impacts and their thermodynamic consequences, atmospheric loss in giant collisions, and high-level models for Earth-Moon tidal evolution. Despite his computer science role, his research outputs extend deeply into astrophysics and geophysics, particularly Moon-forming giant impacts and planetary differentiation.

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• Labs/Teams: Affiliated with the Engineering Education Research Group and the UK & IE EER Network.