Elected member of the University Council of the University of Stuttgart
PI in the German cluster of excellence "Data-Integrated Simulation Science (SimTech)"
HPCwire 2015 readers' and editor's Choice Award for Best use of HPC in Automotive for HLRS
Honorary Professorship of the Russian Academy of Sciences / Siberian Branch
Elected Dean of the Faculty for Energy-, Process- and Biotechnology
Bosch "Schule trifft Wissenschaft" Award 2nd place for the project "Simulated Worlds"
HPCwire 2013 readers' Choice Award for Best use of HPC Applications in Manufacturing for HLRS
Invited Talk at the Falling Walls conference
Visionary Thinker Award / Übermorgenmacherpreis of the State of Baden-Württemberg
Honorary Doctoral Degree of the Russian Academy of Sciences / Siberian Branch
Director of the Information and Communication Center (IZUS) of the University of Stuttgart (IZUS)
Honorary Doctoral Degree of the Donetsk National Technical University, Ukraine
Invited Plenary Talk at SC’07 Reno/USA
Microsoft Award "Early Contributor to Microsoft's Windows compute Cluster Server 2003"
Winner of HPC Challenge at SC’03
Full professor for high performance computing at University of Stuttgart, director of the institute for HPC of the University of Stuttgart, and director of the national High Performance Computing Center / Höchstleistungsrechenzentrum Stuttgart (HLRS)
Assistant professor at the department of computer science of the University of Houston, TX
Dr.-Ing. (PhD) with honors in Engineering from the University of Stuttgart (Metacomputing for Simulation Applications)
Best Paper Award at HPNC'2000
Leader of the team to win the NSF Award for Real Distributed Supercomputing
Head of department for parallel computing at HLRS
Scientist at the computing center of the University of Stuttgart (RUS), Stuttgart, Germany
Scientist at Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria
Dipl.-Ing. (MSc.) in Technical Mathematics from the Technical University of Graz, Austria
Research Assistant at the department for Mathematics / Technical University of Graz
born in Graz/Austria