Christian Plessl
Chairman Of The Board at Paderborn University
Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolChristian Plessl is a professor and HPC leader with 17 years of experience advancing high-performance, parallel and reconfigurable computing from academic research to national infrastructure. He directs the Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing and now chairs the board of the NHR Alliance, shaping Germany’s national HPC strategy while maintaining an active research program. Trained at ETH Zurich (MSc and Dr. sc. ETH), his work spans architecture, tools for scientific computing, scalable algorithms and energy-efficient systems, with over 100 peer-reviewed publications and multiple best-paper and research awards. He combines hands-on hardware-software expertise—from embedded systems and low-power sensor platforms to large-scale HPC—and a track record of winning competitive national and EU funding. Less obvious: he bridges technical leadership and governance, serving on the DFG computer science review board and university senates, which gives him rare influence on research policy and infrastructure deployment.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. sc. ETH, Computer Engineering, Dr. sc. ETH, Computer Engineering at ETH ZürichMatura, Economics, Matura, Economics at Kantonsschule Baden
English, German, French, Italian
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Github Skills (50)
converter10
pdf10
pdf-generation10
html-to-pdf10
wkhtmltopdf10
machine-learning9
latex9
julia9
science9
macos8
html8
petsc8
root-finding8
hpc8
ruby8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
HighPerMeshes/highpermeshes.github.io
Jun 2017 - Feb 2021
Contributions:42 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 3 years 8 months
plessl/latex-goodies
Jan 2009 - Dec 2021
Contributions:9 commits, 3 pushes in 13 years
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