Presenter

Stefan Wesner is the director of the IT Centre and a full professor of parallel and distributed systems at the University of Cologne. He is also a member of the board of the Center for Data and Simulation Science and serves as chairman of the German National Research and Education Network, which provides internet connectivity and services to universities and independent research institutions across Germany. Stefan's research interests focus on efficient and secure computing on current and emerging hardware architectures, as well as the integration of compute and storage infrastructure across the cloud continuum. He is involved in a range of large-scale research projects, including the “Our Dynamic Universe” Cluster of Excellence and the German Human Genome-Phenome Archive (GHGA).