People

NHR@FAU Structure

Executive board and administrative office

The NHR@FAU director holds the professorship for HPC at the Department of Computer Science and was the lead principal investigator (PI) of the NHR@FAU proposal. Together with the technical director of RRZE and the other PIs, the center director forms the NHR@FAU Executive Board, which meets regularly to discuss system operations, support and training activities, and budget planning.

Executive board

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wellein (Director NHR@FAU / Professorship for High Performance Computing, Department of Computer Science)
Marcel Ritter (Technical Director RRZE)
NHR@FAU PIs: Prof. Dr. Erik Bitzek / Prof. Dr. Michael Zaiser (Department of Materials Science and Engeneering), Prof. Dr. Rainer Böckmann (Department of Biology), Prof. Dr. Andreas Görling (Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy), Prof. Dr. Petra Imhof (CCC and Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy), Prof. Dr. Ulrich Rüde (Department of Computer Science), Prof. Dr. Heinrich Sticht (Department of Biochemistry), and Prof. Dr. Gerhard Wellein

Administrative office

PD Dr. Harald Lanig (Executive Secretary)
Rasa Mabande (Administrative Assistant)
Roger Thomalla (Finance Administration)
Kerstin Brandl (Financial Assistant)
Katja Augustin (Public Relations)

Divisions and HPC group lead

NHR@FAU has four divisions: Research, Software & Tools, Training & Support, and Systems & Services. They provide training, application consulting, and expert support to NHR@FAU; at the same time, they continue to engage in research activities within their communities.

The research-oriented structure of NHR@FAU is further supported by Liaison Scientists, who establish a sustainable link between NHR services and ongoing research in relevant fields.

Research

Prof. Dr. Harald Köstler (Head of Research)
Dr. Georg Hager (Performance Modelling)
Dr. Jan Eitzinger (Performance Engineering)
Dominik Ernst (PhD Student) – GHOST
Rafael Ravedutti (PhD Student)
Ayesha Afzal (PhD Student)
Christie Alappat (PhD Student)

Software & Tools

Dr. Jan Eitzinger (Head of Software & Tools)
Thomas Gruber (né Röhl) (PhD Student) – LIKWID & MachineState
Dr. Christoph Kluge – ClusterCockpit
Jan Laukemann (PhD Student) – OSACA

Training & Support

Dr. Georg Hager (Head of Training & Support)
Dr. Jan Eitzinger (Teaching)
Dr. Florian Lange (User Support Physics, Quantum Computing)
Dr. Anna Kahler (User Support Life Science)
Dr. Tobias Klöffel (User Support Chemistry; on leave since 01/2022)
Dr. Sebastian Kuckuk (Teaching)
Dr. Markus Wittmann (Teaching, Support Projects)
Marco Heisig (Competence Unit SC – FAU User Support: Application Process, Performance Optimization, AI Support)

Systems & Services

Dr. Thomas Zeiser (Head of Systems & Services)
Karl-Heinz Frank (Infrastructure)
Stephan Heinrich (Infrastructure, new building)
Michael Meier (System Administration)
Dr. Katrin Nusser (System Administration, KONWIHR, User Support CFD)
Dr. Johannes Veh (System Administration, Storage Systems and Research Data Management, User Support Astro Particle Physics community)

Master and bachelor students

Gonzalo Pinzon Walteros
Dane Lacey

Alumni

Sebastian Bönning
Matthias Knorr
Dr. Faisal Shahzad (2015-2019)
Julian Hammer (2016-2021)
Dorsaf Jdidi
Linda Stadter
Julian Hornich (2018-2019)
Dr. Markus Wittmann (2009-2018; returned 2021)
Dr. Moritz Kreutzer (2011-2017)
Dr. Johannes Habich (2008-2012)
Holger Stengel (2012-2014)
Dr. Stefan Donath
Aditya Nitsure
Nan Chen
Klaus Sembritzki
Tobias Scharpff
Yi Zhou
Johannes Bleisteiner
Salah Saleh
Dominik Thoennes
Michael Hußnätter
Karnajit Sen
Thomas Köster
Dr. Johannes Hofmann
Hassan Asghar