Presenter

Dr Max Kontak is a research scientist at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne, working in the department for High-Performance Computing. His current research activities include simulation methods for rotorcraft as well as both the data analytics and performance engineering aspects of the EU FET HPC project VESTEC. Before joining DLR, he obtained a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Siegen, Germany, where he worked on efficient algorithms for geophysical inverse problems and statistics.