BertilSchmidt is tenured full professor of high-performance computing at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and an adjunct professor at SIT (Singapore Institute of Technology). Prior to that, he was a faculty member at NTU (Nanyang Technological University). His research group has designed and implemented a variety of massively parallel algorithms and tools focusing on the analysis of large-scale bioinformatics data sets on numerous platforms including graphics processing units (GPUs), field-programmable gate arrays and various supercomputers. For his pioneering research work on GPU computing, he has received one of the first CUDA Academic Partnership awards, a CUDA Professor Partnership and three IEEE Best Paper Awards (IEEE ASAP 2009, IEEE ASAP 2015 and IEEE HiPC 2020). His active collaboration with Shandong University has led to various parallel methods for life-science applications that can scale towards tens of thousands of nodes on world-leading supercomputers. He serves as associate editor of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing and the Journal of Computational Science. He also authored the textbook Parallel Programming: Concepts and Practice, which provides an upper-level introduction to parallel programming.