Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
Career
- since 2020: Durham University, Department of Computer Science: Professor
- 2017-2020: Durham University, Department of Computer Science: Associate Professor
- 2013-2017: Durham University, School of Engineering and Computing Sciences: Assistant Professor
- 2012: Paternity leave (7 months)
- 2009-2013: Technische Universität München (TUM), Munich Centre of Advanced Computing: Acting Director/Project Coordinator TUM-KAUST collaboration
- 2005-2009: Technische Universität München (TUM), Department of Computer Science: Research Assistant (wiss. Angestellter)
Education
- 2016: Technische Universität München (TUM), Department of Computer Science: Habilitation (venia legendi)
Multiscale Storage, Parallelisation and Programming Paradigms for Spacetrees in Scientific Computing
Reviewers: Hans-Joachim Bungartz and David E. Keyes - 2009: Technische Universität München (TUM), Department of Computer Science: Dissertation (PhD)
A Framework for Parallel PDE Solvers on Multiscale Adaptive Cartesian Grids
Advisor: Hans-Joachim Bungartz
Reviewers: Hans-Joachim Bungartz, David E. Keyes and Christoph Zenger - 2005: Technische Universität München (TUM), Department of Computer Science: Diploma (MSc)
Advisor: Christoph Zenger
Recent positions of responsibility
- since 2024: EuroHPC JU – Domain Panel Chair Artificial Intelligence
- since 2024: Director Institute for Data Science
- since 2021: Head of Scientific Computing research group
- 2018-2021, 2022/23: Programme Director MSc in Scientific Computing and Data Analysis (MISCADA)
Links

- Durham's Chris Marcotte kicks off the last day of #SIAMCSE25 introducing keynote speaker Daniel Kressner.
- SciComp research group social with guests at #SIAMCSE25 in Texas: next time we should check if there are vegetarians among us. But it was very very good.
- Hatem Ltaief feels like a kid in a candy store in our #SIAMCSE25 workshop on double and half precision (and fun). I think it is more of a nightmare for many programmers.
- So far maybe my favourite quote at #SIAMCSE25: "Write software. Not too much. Mostly pure functions." by Damian Rouson @berkeleylab.lbl.gov
- Please join us for the HPC Days in the week pre #ISC25: https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/data-science/events-/durham---hpc-days/