Dr. Sarah Neuwirth
Full Professor for Computer Science
Johannes Gutenberg University
Dr. Sarah Neuwirth is a Full Professor for Computer Science and heads the “High Performance Computing and its Applications” group at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany. In addition, Sarah is responsible for the management and further development of the HPC division and infrastructure at JGU. Previously, she was the Deputy Head of the “Modular Supercomputing and Quantum Computing” group at Goethe University Frankfurt. In 2018, Sarah completed her PhD in Computer Science at Heidelberg University. Her research interests include parallel file systems, modular supercomputing, performance engineering, networking, reproducible benchmarking, parallel I/O and parallel programming models. For her outstanding contributions to HPC, Sarah was awarded the “2023 PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC” and the “ZONTA Science Award 2019”. She has worked on numerous research collaborations, including working with the Jülich Supercomputing Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, and Virginia Tech.
