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
- 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

- Excellent talk by Amir Goharshady from @compscioxford.bsky.social at the Scientific Computing seminar @durham-comp-sci.bsky.social
- Apparently my picture had been missing from https://dl.acm.org/journal/toms/editorial-board. Well, that's an easy fix. Please submit to the upcoming Special Issue!
- We will extend the registration of the #HPCDays tomorrow. For the time being, have a look on the Friday programme: https://hpc-days.github.io/Durham-HPC-Days-2026/programme-days/
- This postdoc post might be interesting to people: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4389017624/
- If you are still looking for a PhD, https://www.exageo.org/phd-student-projects/ still seems to have a project open on “Mixed-precision multigrid for weather and climate applications”. Might be of interest for @miscada.bsky.social students!