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

- Had a brilliant but very intense day at Argonne. Learned a lot of things and honestly impressed. Thanks for "a brilliant day out".
- We are searching for Expressions of Interest for Newton International Fellowships 2026: https://scicomp.webspace.durham.ac.uk/newton-international-fellowship-nif-2026/
- We are starting the organisation of the Durham HPC Days 2026. There's now a call for workshops. If you want to organise a session with 4,8,... speakers, please submit your proposal on our webpage. Will be great to see many dear friends in Durham in the summer. https://mzhc13.github.io/Durham-HPC-Days-2026/
- Here's the announcement of the new Associate Directors for TOMS: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7393527494714335232/ Happy to serve for this brilliant journal. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7393527494714335232/?midToken=AQF7ZopC_-gHVA&midSig=1dMLamvXvsiI01&trk=eml-email_notification_single_mentioned_you_in_this_01-hero_notification_cta-0-1ep~cta&trkEmail=eml-email_notification_single_mentioned_you_in_this_01-hero_notification_cta-0-1ep~cta-null-nuk7jz~mhssbmq6~f1-null-null&eid=nuk7jz-mhssbmq6-f1
- It is great to have Bruce Hoppe from the FastCode community in our (virtual) seminar today. Nice motivation using the paper "There's plenty of room at the Top" (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aam9744)