Prof. Dr. Dieter Kranzlmüller received his PhD and habilitation in computer science from Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria. After several years in the IT industry, he switched back to academia and worked at Universities in Linz, Reading, Dresden and Lyon, as well as at CERN in Geneva. In 2008, he was appointed chair of communication systems and systems programming at LMU Munich and member of the Board of Directors of the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) in Munich. There, Kranzlmüller took over as Chair of the Board of Directors in 2017.