• My PULSE infrastructure proposal with Peter Thoman was accepted, 95k EUR for AI-focused hardware at the department of CS! Nice! (December 2024)
• Started a new event series “ESC - Exchange in Scientific Computing” with an awesome talk given by Dieter Kranzlmüller of the LRZ (November 2024)
• I’ve been awarded the MIP teaching award 2023/2024 (October 2024)
• I’ve been asked to serve as program committee member for ASHPC 2025 (June 2024)
• Our joint paper with Sascha Hammes and Philipp Zech on analyzing artificial lighting energy demand using HPC was accepted at BSA 2024 (May 2024)
• I’m joining the executive committee of the PARS group of the German Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI) and the Informationstechnische Gesellschaft (ITG) (May 2024)
• We conducted the first Euregio Hackaprompt Challenge at the University of Trento, Italy - great success and a lot of fun (April 2024)
• We’ve started our FFG Digital Pro Bootcamp on Performanceoriented Software (April 2024)

Organization

• General Chair of the International Symposium on High-Level Parallel Programming and Applications (2025)
• Co-Organizer of the IEEE International Conference on eScience (2021-2025)
• Member of the advisory board of the Department of Computer Science (2023-2025)
• Co-Organizer of the HCQS - Hybrid Classical Quantum Systems Mini-Symposium (2024)
• Co-Organizer of the EUREGIO Hackaprompt Challenge (2024)
• Member of the Curriculumskommission for Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics (MIP) @ UIBK (2019-)
• Co-Organizer of the PRACE Winter School 2021 - GPU Programming with CUDA (2021)
• Co-Organizer of the EUREGIO HPCDSI School (2020)
• Co-Organizer of the PRACE Winter School 2020 - GPU Programming with CUDA (2020)

Committee Member

• PC member of ASHPC - Austrian-Slovenian HPC Meeting (2025)
• Review Committee member for National Supercomputing Centre (VSC)
• PC member of EuroPar - Int. Europ. Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Computing (2023-2025)
• PC member of UCC - Utility and Cloud Computing (2023)
• PC member of eScience - Int. Conf. on eScience (2021, 2023)
• PC member of CCGrid - Int. Symp. on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (2017, 2019-2022)
• Artifact evaluation committee member of CF - Int. Conf. on Computing Frontiers (2020)
• PC member of PDP - Int. Conf. on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing (2015-2020)
• PC member of eScience 2020 (cancelled due to Covid-19)
• Poster Committee member of HPDC - Int. Symp. on High Performance Distributed Computing (2017)
• PC member of FiCloud - Int. Conf. on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (2016)

Journal Reviewer

• Computing (Springer)
• Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
• Journal of Cloud Computing
• Journal of Grid Computing
• Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC)
• Journal of Supercomputing
• Parallel Computing (Elsevier)
• Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC)
• Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
• Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)

Conference Reviewer

IPDPS (2022, 2020-2019), CCGrid (2021-2019, 2017), PDP (2020-2015), CF (2020-2018), Euro-Par (2020, 2017-2016, 2013), PASA (2018), ANDARE (2017), HPDC (2017, 2018), MCSoc (2016), FiCloud (2016), ICPE (2016), PACT (2015), UCC (2014), SBAC-PAD (2014), ICS (2014), IMPACT (2014), CLUSTER (2012), SC (2011), PARCO (2011)