Summary
Philipp Gschwandtner is a Head of Research Center HPC and seasoned HPC specialist with 15 years of experience optimizing and parallelizing scientific applications, developing efficient algorithms and data structures, and leading funded research collaborations across EuroHPC, H2020, FWF and PRACE. Based in Innsbruck, he combines academic rigor—PhD in Computer Science—with hands-on leadership running the university's HPC support, training, and consulting services. He co-founded PH3 GmbH to bring that expertise to industry, bridging research-grade performance tuning with practical software delivery. His research background includes energy- and performance-aware auto-tuning and instrumentation work (Insieme project), reflecting a rare blend of multi-objective optimization skills and project proposal execution. Colleagues rely on him for turning complex parallel performance problems into reproducible, deployable solutions and for building teams that scale HPC impact across disciplines.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck / University of Innsbruck
German, English, French