Update alumni information (#787)

* update krystalli * update arnold * update turner * update jones * update wilby * update yousefi * update charlton * update croucher * update kabiri chimeh * update richmond * update tooley * update allard * update furnass * remove defunct sheff emails
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diff --git a/_people/anna-krystalli.md b/_people/anna-krystalli.md
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ role: Research Software Engineer
 
 ---
 
-Anna is a Research Software Engineer. She fell in love with statistical programming and R in particular, during her PhD in Macroecology at the University of Sheffield. This was followed by two years of freelancing as a Research Data Scientist. These and previous experiences as a quality assurance auditor have led her to focus on efforts to promote more transparent, robust, reproducible research through better scientific software development and research data management.
+Anna is a Research Software Engineer. She fell in love with statistical programming and R in particular, during her PhD in Macroecology at the University of Sheffield. This was followed by two years of freelancing as a Research Data Scientist. These and previous experiences as a quality assurance auditor have led her to focus on efforts to promote more transparent, robust, reproducible research through better scientific software development and research data management.  
+Anna left the RSE Sheffield team in 2022 to become a freelance Research Software Engineering consultant.
 
 She’s also passionate about community and capacity building. She has extensive teaching experience, was part of the inaugural Mozilla Science Lab [Open Leadership Training](https://mozilla.github.io/leadership-training/readme/) cohort, has been a veteran mentor on following rounds and a member of the organising committee for the [Sheffield R users group](http://sheffieldr.github.io/).
 

diff --git a/_people/becky-arnold.md b/_people/becky-arnold.md
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ role: Research Software Engineer
 
 ---
 
-Becky is a Research Software Engineer who worked with the University of Sheffield RSE group and the Alan Turing institute developing open-source [guidance](https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/the-turing-way) on best practice for reproducible data science. She took a leave of absence from her astrophysics research (where she uses simulations to study the evolution of star clusters) to work on this project.
+Becky is a Research Software Engineer who worked with the University of Sheffield RSE group and the Alan Turing institute developing open-source [guidance](https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/the-turing-way) on best practice for reproducible data science. She took a leave of absence from her astrophysics research (where she uses simulations to study the evolution of star clusters) to work on this project.  
+Becky left the RSE Sheffield team in 2019 to take up a Postdoctoral Research Associate position at the University of Massachusetts.
 
 She is also a [Software Sustainability Institute](https://www.software.ac.uk/) fellow and is using the fellowship finds to organise a [series](https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/physics/news/programming-skills-sessions) of talks and workshops on a diverse range of topics surrounding best practice.
 

diff --git a/_people/bob-turner.md b/_people/bob-turner.md
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ role: Research Software Engineer
 
 ---
 
-Bob was a senior research software engineer who started his career in software and databases after completing a degree in *Applied Physics* at the *University of Durham*. After four years in the private sector, he did a *PhD in Biophysics* at the *University of Leeds*, before working as a postdoc researcher at the *University of Sheffield* in several departments, including Physics and Astronomy, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Mechanical, Engineering and the Dental School, reflecting an unusually broad range of research interests spanning microscopy, microbiology, engineering and healthcare.
+Bob was a senior research software engineer who started his career in software and databases after completing a degree in *Applied Physics* at the *University of Durham*. After four years in the private sector, he did a *PhD in Biophysics* at the *University of Leeds*, before working as a postdoc researcher at the *University of Sheffield* in several departments, including Physics and Astronomy, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Mechanical, Engineering and the Dental School, reflecting an unusually broad range of research interests spanning microscopy, microbiology, engineering and healthcare.  
+Bob left the RSE Sheffield team in 2023 to take up a Research Software Engineering position at the University of Oxford.
 
 An accomplished researcher with some [important publications](https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=JdHx1A8AAAAJ), as a software engineer Bob collaborates with researchers to develop and improve software. This of course involved writing code, but also lots of liaison, discussion, leadership and, most importantly, listening!
 
@@ -24,6 +25,5 @@ Bob's role included contributing to the management of the RSE team, under Paul R
 
 Contact:
 
-- Email: r.d.turner (at) sheffield.ac.uk
 - Web: [https://sites.google.com/view/robert-turner](https://sites.google.com/view/robert-turner)
 - Twitter: [@Bobatron](https://twitter.com/bobatron)
diff --git a/_people/david-jones.md b/_people/david-jones.md
@@ -9,13 +9,11 @@ role: Research Software Engineer
 
 ---
 
-David was a Research Software Engineer in
-the University of Sheffield's RSE group.
+David was a Research Software Engineer in the University of Sheffield's RSE group.
 
-David graduated from the University of Cambridge with
-a degree in mathematics and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Computer Science,
-and has since taken a variety of mostly systems programming roles
-in industry before recently being employed in The Academy.
+David graduated from the University of Cambridge with a degree in mathematics and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Computer Science, 
+and has since taken a variety of mostly systems programming roles in industry before recently being employed in The Academy.  
+David left the RSE Sheffield team in 2020 to become a typographer.
 
 David has expertise in
 C, Python, [Go](https://golang.org/), [Lua](https://www.lua.org/),

diff --git a/_people/david-wilby.md b/_people/david-wilby.md
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ role: Research Software Engineer
 
 ---
 
-David was a Senior Research Software Engineer with a research background in optical physics and sensory biology. Following a PhD and postdoc at the University of Bristol and a postdoc at Lund University David made the transition to research software engineering in 2019.
+David was a Senior Research Software Engineer with a research background in optical physics and sensory biology. Following a PhD and postdoc at the University of Bristol and a postdoc at Lund University David made the transition to research software engineering in 2019.  
+David left the RSE Sheffield team in 2023 to take up a role as a Research Software Engineer at the British Antarctic Survey.
 
 His interests in research software relate to: impact enhancement, reproducibility and sustainability, best practice and environmental and social responsibility, in addition to interests in training researchers in research software.
 

diff --git a/_people/fariba-yousefi.md b/_people/fariba-yousefi.md
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@ role: Research Software Engineer
 
 ---
 
-Fariba Yousefi is in the process of completing her PhD in Machine Learning at the department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield. She recently joined the research software engineering team as a machine learning research engineer at the university of Sheffield.
+Fariba Yousefi completed her PhD in Machine Learning at the department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield. She joined the RSE Sheffield team as a machine learning research engineer.  
+Fariba left the RSE Sheffield team in 2022 to take up a role as an AI Scientist at AstraZeneca.
 
 Her research interests are Gaussian Processes, data scarcity, imbalanced data and multi-task learning. She enjoys working on healthcare applications.
 

diff --git a/_people/john-charlton.md b/_people/john-charlton.md
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ role: Research Software Engineer
 ---
 
 John was a PhD student and Research Software Engineer. Previous work had involved simulating dense crowds of virtual pedestrians, using GPUs to model many tens of thousands of people in real time.
-His interests included agent-based modelling, visualisation and interaction of simulations. Expertise includes GPU-accelerated computing and agent-based modelling approaches.
+His interests included agent-based modelling, visualisation and interaction of simulations. Expertise includes GPU-accelerated computing and agent-based modelling approaches.  
+John left the RSE Sheffield team in 2020 to take up a role as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield, in Neopath, part of the School of Clinical Dentitry
 
 He is currently working on a [RateSetter project](https://rssb.wavecast.io/platformtraininterface/ratesetter-improving-passenger-boarding-rate-and-reducing-risk-at-the-platform-train-interface) examining the boarding rate and risk at the Platform-Train interface.
 

diff --git a/_people/mike-croucher.md b/_people/mike-croucher.md
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ role: Co-founder
 
 ---
 
-Mike is now head of Research IT at the University of Leeds. He is also an
-[EPSRC Research Software Engineering Fellow] with 10+ years experience
+Mike left the RSE Sheffield team in 2018 to become head of Research IT at the University of Leeds.
+He is also an [EPSRC Research Software Engineering Fellow] with 10+ years experience
 supporting scientific software, high performance computing and research
 software engineering at The University of Manchester and, more recently,
 the University of Sheffield. Mike specialises in high-level languages

diff --git a/_people/mozhgan-kabiri-chimeh.md b/_people/mozhgan-kabiri-chimeh.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ role: Research Associate/Research Software Engineer
 
 ---
 
-Dr Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh is a GPU developer advocate at NVIDIA helping to bring GPU and HPC to growing user community in Europe and around the world. She is a community builder with a passion for open source software and is actively involved in the HPC and RSE communities. As a Software Sustainability Institute fellow, and Research Software Engineer (RSE) advocate, she is actively promoting reproducible and sustainable software, use of HPC and particularly GPUs through training, seminars, research software consultancy and outreach.
+Dr Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh left the RSE Sheffiled team in 2020 to become a GPU developer advocate at NVIDIA, helping to bring GPU and HPC to growing user community in Europe and around the world. She is a community builder with a passion for open source software and is actively involved in the HPC and RSE communities. As a Software Sustainability Institute fellow, and Research Software Engineer (RSE) advocate, she is actively promoting reproducible and sustainable software, use of HPC and particularly GPUs through training, seminars, research software consultancy and outreach.
 
 Prior to joining Nvidia, Mozhgan was a Research Software Engineer in Massive Scale Complex Systems Simulation with Accelerated Computing at the University of Sheffield, UK. She worked in the area of complex system modelling using emerging high-performance parallel architectures.
 

diff --git a/_people/paul-richmond.md b/_people/paul-richmond.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ role: Former Group Director
 
 ---
 
-Paul was a co-founder of the RSE team and led its growth and development from three staff to a team of roughly 12 full time employees over a period of six years. He is the RSE team lead at the [Cambridge Institute of Computing for Climate Science](https://cambridge-iccs.github.io/) but holds a part time role at the University of Sheffield as a Professor of Research Software Engineering in the Department of Computer Science. He no longer oversees the RSE team but is actively engaged in research projects and impact work relating to the application of research software, in particular the [FLAME GPU](http://www.flamegpu.com) software for GPU accelerated agent based simulation. Paul was formally an [EPSRC Research Software Engineering Fellow](https://rse.ac.uk/community/epsrc-rse-fellows/) and President of the society of Research Software Engineering](https://society-rse.org/about/governance/rse-society-trustees-2020-2021/). He is actively engaged in the national RSE community and retains interest in advancing the national provision of RSE collaboration including within the University of Sheffield. 
+Paul was a co-founder of the RSE team and led its growth and development from three staff to a team of roughly 12 full time employees over a period of six years. He left the RSE Sheffield team in 2023 to become the RSE team lead at the [Cambridge Institute of Computing for Climate Science](https://cambridge-iccs.github.io/), but holds a part time role at the University of Sheffield as a Professor of Research Software Engineering in the Department of Computer Science. He no longer oversees the RSE team but is actively engaged in research projects and impact work relating to the application of research software, in particular the [FLAME GPU](http://www.flamegpu.com) software for GPU accelerated agent based simulation. Paul was formally an [EPSRC Research Software Engineering Fellow](https://rse.ac.uk/community/epsrc-rse-fellows/) and President of the society of Research Software Engineering](https://society-rse.org/about/governance/rse-society-trustees-2020-2021/). He is actively engaged in the national RSE community and retains interest in advancing the national provision of RSE collaboration including within the University of Sheffield. 
 
 * Email: P.Richmond (at) Sheffield.ac.uk
 * Web: [http://paulrichmond.shef.ac.uk](http://paulrichmond.shef.ac.uk)
diff --git a/_people/phil-tooley.md b/_people/phil-tooley.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Fortran, but also champions the use of the Numpy/Scipy stack for scientific comp
 This includes the use of accelerator technologies including [Numba](https://numba.pydata.org) and
 [Cython](http://cython.org/) to write custom python code which is speed competitive with
 traditional compiled languages, possible in conjunction with parallel frameworks such as
-[Dask](https://dask.pydata.org/).
+[Dask](https://dask.pydata.org/).  
+Phil left the RSE Sheffield team in 2019 to take up a role as a Senior Software Engineer at the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG).
 
-* Email: phil.tooley (at) sheffield.ac.uk
 * Twitter: [@acceleratedsci](https://twitter.com/acceleratedsci)
diff --git a/_people/tania-allard.md b/_people/tania-allard.md
@@ -8,8 +8,7 @@ surname: Allard
 
 ---
 
-Tania left RSE Sheffield for a [Research Associate/Research Software
-Engineer] position at the University of Leeds. She has a PhD in
+Tania left the RSE Sheffield team in 2018 for a Machine Learning Engineer position at Hello Soda. She has a PhD in
 computational nanomechanics at the University of Manchester where she
 focused on the multi-scale modelling of biological and biocompatible
 materials. She is part of [Open Dream Kit] (a [Horizon2020 project]),
@@ -25,7 +24,6 @@ instructor.
 
 -   Twitter: [@ixek]
 
-[Research Associate/Research Software Engineer]: https://rse.ac.uk/
 [Open Dream Kit]: https://opendreamkit.org/
 [Horizon2020 project]: https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/
 [@ixek]: https://twitter.com/ixek

diff --git a/_people/will-furnass.md b/_people/will-furnass.md
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ Will was a Research Software Engineer who was previously:
   - Helping Paul Richmond lead the RSE team
   - Contributing to the development and maintenance of University research computing platforms (inc. HPC)
 
+Will left the RSE Sheffield Team in 2021 to become a Research Platforms Engineer at the University of Sheffield.
+
 Previous projects:
 
   - Packaging, test infrastructure, releases and documentation for the [MuMoT multi-scale modelling tool](https://mumot.readthedocs.io/en/stable/).