Prof. Dr.Sarah Neuwirth

I am an Associate Professor for Computer Science and Chair of the "High Performance Computing and its Applications" research group at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU). Among my responsibilities are the advancement of high performance computing at JGU, the coordination of JGU’s HPC activities at regional, national and international levels, and the representation of JGU in various committees, including the NHR Alliance, the Gauss-Allianz, ETP4HPC, and EOFS. I also serve as the Director of the NHR@SW HPC Center. My research interests include parallel file and storage systems, modular supercomputing (i.e., resource disaggregation and virtualization), performance engineering, high performance computing and networking, reproducible benchmarking, parallel I/O, and parallel programming models. For my work in high performance computing, I have been awarded the "2023 PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC" and the "ZONTA Science Award 2019".

Prior to joining JGU, I was the Deputy Head of the "Modular Supercomputing and Quantum Computing" Group at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany and a postdoctoral research associate at Heidelberg University, Germany. In 2018, I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at Heidelberg University, Germany advised by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ulrich Brüning. My Ph.D. has been greatly impacted by two summer internships at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA in 2015 and 2016 under the mentorship of Dr. Sarp Oral and Dr. Feiyi Wang, where I learned the aspects of identifying and addressing gaps in leadership HPC system software and hardware stacks by developing, hardening, and deploying experimental research and production-ready solutions. My current research has also been greatly impacted by the participation in the European research project series DEEP, where I focused on the resource disaggregation and virtualization of network-attached accelerators, and my continuous conference committee work ever since I joined SC’11 as a Student Volunteer.