2019

Keynote at Russian Supercomputing Days 2019

Keynote at HPC Asia 2019

2018

Co-Founder of the Media Solution Center (MSC-BW)

Elected member of the University Council of the University of Stuttgart

PI in the German cluster of excellence "Data-Integrated Simulation Science (SimTech)"

2015

HPCwire 2015 readers' and editor's Choice Award for Best use of HPC in Automotive for HLRS

2014

Honorary Professorship of the Russian Academy of Sciences / Siberian Branch

Elected Dean of the Faculty for Energy-, Process- and Biotechnology

2013

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

2012

Visionary Thinker Award / Übermorgenmacherpreis of the State of Baden-Württemberg

2011

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)

2009

Honorary Doctoral Degree of the Donetsk National Technical University, Ukraine

2008

Co-founder of the Automotive Simulation Center Stuttgart (ASCS)

2007

Invited Plenary Talk at SC’07 Reno/USA

Microsoft Award "Early Contributor to Microsoft's Windows compute Cluster Server 2003"

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)

2002

Assistant professor at the department of computer science of the University of Houston, TX

2001

Dr.-Ing. (PhD) with honors in Engineering from the University of Stuttgart (Metacomputing for Simulation Applications)

2000

Best Paper Award at HPNC'2000

Acting head of HLRS

1999

Leader of the team to win the NSF Award for Real Distributed Supercomputing

1998

Head of department for parallel computing at HLRS

1993

Scientist at the computing center of the University of Stuttgart (RUS), Stuttgart, Germany

1990

Scientist at Joanneum Research, Graz, Austria

Dipl.-Ing. (MSc.) in Technical Mathematics from the Technical University of Graz, Austria

1988 - 1990

Research Assistant at the department for Mathematics / Technical University of Graz

1964

born in Graz/Austria