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

- Paper alert: thanks to funding through the #eCSE programme we have completed a first version of our domain specific language DSLHyPE for ExaHyPE to model compute kernels for hyperbolic PDEs for CPUs and GPUs. This is joint work with friends from @epcc.bsky.social : arxiv.org/abs/2608.19273 https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19273
- I think I wrote about this before, but a lot interesting recordings from the Durham #HPCDays2026 are now available at www.youtube.com/@Durham_HPC. Besides that, you find a lot of our C++ training there as a latest update! https://www.youtube.com/@Durham_HPC
- I travelled to WCCM in Munich today and the first talk I attended was on the impact of climate change on historic masonry. It presented studies from Durham Castle. The world is small ...
- 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/