Prof. Thomas Schulthess

Director of the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, Professor of Computational Physics at ETH Zurich

Thomas Schulthess holds a chair for computational physics at ETH Zurich and directs the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano since fall of 2008. Here received his PhD in 1994 from ETH Zurich and spent many years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. While his primary research is on computational methods for materials science, as CSCS Director he has taken interest in developing energy efficient computing systems for climate modeling and meteorology.