Doron Prize 2019 goes to Thomas Schulthess
The Director of the National Supercomputing Center CSCS has been honoured for his outstanding achievements in the field of high-performance computing.
On 3 April 2019 in Zug, the Swiss Foundation for the Doron Prize honoured Thomas Schulthess, Professor of Computational Physics at the Department of Physics, for his outstanding achievements in the field of supercomputing. The Foundation praised Schulthess as one of the most renowned Swiss and American scientists in the field of supercomputing.
Under Schulthess as the new Director, interdisciplinary exchange has been encouraged between the various scientific disciplines and a close cooperation nurtured with mathematicians, computer scientists and hardware manufacturers, says the Foundation.
With his scientific and technical contributions, Schulthess creates an important basis for the success of the research groups that use the CSCS infrastructure and engage in computational research. For around five years, the CSCS has offered the highest computing power in Europe and is now one of the leading centres of its kind in the world.