Marcel Kunze
Senior Researcher at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Neckargemünd, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolMarcel Kunze is a senior researcher and technology leader with a PhD in Physics and a habilitation in artificial intelligence, bringing decades of experience at the intersection of scientific computing, distributed systems and cloud research. He played a formative role in establishing Grid Computing for particle physics at SLAC/Stanford and led national efforts like the LHC Computing Grid and Germany’s D-Grid initiative. Marcel has since headed cloud computing research groups at KIT and driven campus digital transformation and cloud services at Heidelberg University, blending academic teaching with operational service leadership. His expertise spans international project management, cloud architectures and applied machine learning, with a strong track record of moving large-scale research infrastructures from prototyping into production. Based in Neckargemünd, he combines deep theoretical training with hands-on systems integration—a profile that reliably bridges research, policy and engineering teams.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Habilitation, Physik, Habilitation, Physik at Ruhr University BochumDr. rer. nat., Physik, Dr. rer. nat., Physik at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
EnglishGithub contributions (5)
marcelkunze/tracking
Nov 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:636 pushes, 1 branch, 70 tags in 3 months
marcelkunze/rhonno
Dec 2014 - May 2019
Contributions:175 commits, 302 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 6 months
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