Summary
Niels Fallenbeck is a seasoned infrastructure and cloud computing leader with over a decade of experience, currently serving as Deputy Head of IT Infrastructure, Servers and Services at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Munich. He holds a PhD in distributed computing and virtualization and has led cloud security efforts as head of the Cloud Computing Competence Center at Fraunhofer AISEC and as a co-founder of the German Cloud Security Alliance chapter. At LRZ he runs Compute Cloud operations and contributes to incident response, blending deep research roots with hands-on production reliability at scale. His background in national grid and virtualization projects gives him a rare perspective on secure, large-scale academic and research cloud deployments. Outside work he bikes competitively, a hobby that mirrors his approach to endurance and continuous improvement in complex systems.
13 years of coding experience
Doktor (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doktor (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Philipps-Universität Marburg