Dr Adam Barker has been awarded a prestigious Royal Society Industry Fellowship. The scheme aims to enhance knowledge transfer in science and technology in the UK, and provides an outstanding opportunity to demonstrate the benefits of how industry and academia can work effectively together to drive innovation.

Adam will be spending 50% of his time for two years on a collaborative project at Cloudsoft in TechCube, a world-class startup space in Edinburgh. Adam will be working on multi-cloud application management with Dr Alex Heneveld, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and his team. He will be contributing towards Brooklyn – an open-source, policy-driven control plane for distributed applications, and the OASIS Cloud Application Management for Platforms (CAMP) standard.