Prof Volker Lindenstruth

Volker Lindenstruth is professor at the Goethe University Frankfurt where he holds a chair for high performance computer architecture since October 2009. He also is member of the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) which he joined in the year 2007 as a Fellow and later Senior Fellow and member of the Board of Directors. Since 2012 he is Chairman of the Board of FIAS. In addition, since 2010 Lindenstruth heads the Scientific IT at the GSI Helmholtz Center for heavy ion research, Darmstadt, and is computing coordinator for the FAIR accelerator facility. Lindenstruth studied physics at the Technical University Darmstadt and completed his PhD in nuclear physics in 1993 at Frankfurt University. He spent the following five years as postdoctoral research fellow in the US, at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and the UC Space Science Laboratory. From 1998 to 2009 he held a chair for computer science at the University of Heidelberg where he also headed the Kirchhoff Institute for Physics. Lindenstruth’s research interests concentrate on the fields of computer engineering, high performance computing, high-energy physics, and compressed baryonic matter. Since 2000 he is the chair of the real-time data processing project HLT at the ALICE experiment at the LHC accelerator of the European research center CERN. Lindenstruth is the holder of several IT-related patents and the founder of several companies. He has received various prizes for his work.