Thomas Lippert

Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Lippert has served as the Director of the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) at Forschungszentrum Jülich since 2004. After spending 15 years as a Professor of Computational Theoretical Physics at the University of Wuppertal, he took on the role of Professor of Modular Supercomputing and Quantum Computing at the Department of Computer Science and Mathematics at Goethe University Frankfurt in 2020. Since 2004, he has led the Helmholtz program in the field of supercomputing, titled Engineering Digital Futures. He serves on the board of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing and is the Managing Director of the John von Neumann Institute for Computing. Thomas Lippert has held a number of roles at the European level in the field of high-performance computing (HPC), including the establishment and management of Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE), participation in the advisory boards of EuroHPC, and involvement in various European research projects. Since 2014, he has been instrumental in developing AI capabilities at Forschungszentrum Jülich, including the installation of JUWELS, a supercomputer designed as a training system for large fundamental models already when it was commissioned in 2020. The JUPITER exascale computer, for which architecture he is responsible, will enable Germany to train AI more than 20 times faster than previously possible.