Toby White has spent several years working at the cutting edge of markup languages and data representation in physics, chemistry and the environmental sciences. After a period of time working on weather models for the Met Office, his most recent position was as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Earth Sciences in the University of Cambridge, working closely with the National Institute for Environmental eScience. He is the primary author of the FoX XML library, the only complete, standards-compliant XML processing library for Fortran, which is  used across computational chemistry, computational physics, geophysics and geoinformatics. He has presented work at numerous national and international conferences; he was an invited speaker to the 1st and 2nd NERC eScience conferences, and to the Joint European Workshop on scientific communities of practice. He has across-the-board expertise in scientific data representation, and was involved in projects from a range of domains, from ecology to glaciology; he was an invited expert on the NERC working group on Agent-based Modelling. He has organised well-attended workshops in the field, and is an author on well over twenty peer-reviewed publications.

He received his PhD, in theoretical chemistry, from the University of Cambridge in 2002; before that, his first degree was also in chemistry, from the University of Oxford in 1998. Outside of his work, Toby is an actor with multiple stage credits to his name: most recently, a production of Romeo and Juliet by the Mutabilitie Theatre Company.