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Tobias Weinzierl is Professor in High-Performance Computing (HPC) in the Department of Computer Science at Durham University, where he leads the Scientific Computing research group, and the Director of Durham’s Institute for Data Science (IDAS). After studying Computer Science with a minor in Maths, he obtained a Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) as well as a habilitation in Computer Science from TUM. Tobias has been the inaugurate director of the Master in Scientific Computing and Data Analysis (MISCADA), he is the PI on multiple HPC projects tied to the UK’s exascale programme ExCALIBUR, and he heads the UK’s first Intel oneAPI Centre of Excellence. He also serves as Domain Panel Chair (Artificial Intelligence) for EuroHPC JU.

He is particularly interested in efficient ways how to translate state-of-the-art algorithms – multigrid, higher-order DG or SPH formalisms – into fast code that fits to modern architectures, and how to create performance-portable algorithms and code. Where possible, his work feeds into open source software.

@tobiasweinzierl.bsky.social

  • Had a lot of fun presenting our #ExCALIBUR multigrid work at IMG at KAUST. Looking forward to publish the ideas around DG soon.
  • We've just received notice that the paper of our former @miscada.bsky.social student Timothy Stokes has made it into the finals of the 10th BGCE Prize @ SIAM CSE25. Looking forward to meet you in Forth Worth and fingers crossed ...
  • Enjoyed to serve on the first panel at the DRI retreat in Manchester. Great questions. But also had a hard time: look at the microphone in front of me.
  • It was great to be in Durham Cathedral today and see my PhD student graduate. Once again: Congratulations Dr Noble.
  • Took me and two kids an afternoon to build this fake lego set. But eventually we did succeed. Peano, ExaHyPE, ... all are hosted on LRZ's gitlab and free to download.