Author

Professor Volker Lindenstruth received his diploma and doctorate from TU Darmstadt. He was a member of the Scientific Staff of the UC Space Science Laboratory, USA, before founding iCore Technologies in 1997. Since 1998 Professor Lindenstruth was leading the Department of Technical Computer Science until 2009 and accompanying the position of Director for the Kirchhoff Institute of the University of Heidelberg. In addition, since 2000 he has been the head of the ALICE HLT project at the LHC of CERN. In 2005, he founded Certon Systems in Heidelberg. At FIAS he held the position of Fellow since 2007. Furthermore, the group of High-Performance Computer Architecture of the Goethe University has been in his care since 2009. Professor Lindenstruth is chair of the board of directors of FIAS. He is also in charge of the scientific IT department at GSI Helmholtzzentrum since 2010 and founded the e3c Computing GmbH in 2011.