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: Diplom (German MSc)
Advisor: Christoph Zenger
Recent positions of responsibility
- Supercomputing 26: Chair of Applications track
- since 2025: Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software and International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
- 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

- This is an interesting paper to read: arxiv.org/pdf/2607.04881 It addresses a fundamental issue we have in many octree-based codes: The number of leaves explodes as we go down the hierarchy even though we might not need isotropic refinement. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.04881
- There's a great article on the @cake-dri.bsky.social webpage (it is not written by us!) summarising some impressions from the #HPCDays in Durham this year. What a great show, what a great community. https://www.cake.ac.uk/news/k8s-cake-at-dhpcd/
- The Quartl is a TUM-based newsletter. Most of the current edition is in German, but page 24 covers our #ExaHyPE workshop and is in English: https://www.cs.cit.tum.de/sccs/weiterfuehrende-informationen/quartl/
- Did pop by. Great stuff. Obviously :-) [contains quote post or other embedded content]
- It is great to see Durham and SHAREing featured prominently at #ISC26