Christopher Leader is an experienced software project manager and technical team lead at SLB, specializing in high-performance computing and software geophysics since January 2016. Previous roles include a computational geophysicist intern at Hess Corporation, where Christopher contributed to 3D imaging projects, and research assistant roles at Stanford Exploration Project, focusing on seismic data processing and inversion. Additional internships included research geophysicist positions at Total E&P and Shell, and data processing at Rio Tinto. Christopher holds a PhD in Geophysics and Seismology from Stanford University, an MSc from Imperial College London, and a BA in Physics from the University of Oxford.