Prof. Dr Christian Rüegg is Director of the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) and full professor of physics at ETH Zurich and EPFL, and professor at the University of Geneva. He is a member of the ETH Board representing the four Research Institutes (PSI, Empa, WSL, Eawag) and a member of the board of FHNW. Christian Rüegg initiated the PSI Center for Scientific Computing, Theory, and Data in 2021. The new Center complements PSI’s leading large-scale research infrastructures with cutting-edge computing, modelling, theory, and data capabilities and includes a local hub of the Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC) and of the national center on computational design and discovery of novel materials (MARVEL).