Joe Pitt-Francisis a mathematician. He studied mathematics at Queen Mary and Westfield College from 1987, and then came to the Mathematical Institute in Oxford to study for a DPhil. in 1990. From 1994 to 1996 he was employed by the University of Bath to work on a large research project called Development of Modelling Tools for the Forging Industry. Since the beginning of 1997, Joe Pitt-Fravcisis have been back in Oxford. He was initially employed as a research officer on the grant Manufacturing automation of large scale assemblies. He worked in the Computing Laboratory (now Department of Computer Science) and he was supervised by Stephen Cameron. From October 1999 to June 2002 he was a Departmental Lecturer in the Computing Laboratory (now Department of Computer Science) . From Summer 2002 to Summer 2006 he was employed by the Oxford Supercomputing Centre as Scientific Computing Advisor. Since Summer 2006 he have been employed full time as a researcher within the Computational Biology group.

  Chaste (Open source software for Computational Biology), Parallel and high performance computing, Cardiac modelling, Computational geometry and finite element meshes, Software development.