Florina Ciorba is an Associate Professor and head of the High Performance Computing (HPC) Lab at the University of Basel, Switzerland, which she established in 2015. She earned her Ph.D. from the National Technical University of Athens in 2008, followed by postdoctoral positions at Mississippi State University, USA, and the Technical University of Dresden, Germany.Prof. Ciorba’s research encompasses methods, tools, and techniques for enhancing performance, portability, resilience, reproducibility, security, sustainability, and autonomous operation of systems and HPC and AI/ML applications. She has authored nearly a hundred peer-reviewed publications and received best paper awards at several conferences. Her recent work focuses on autotuning with scheduling and load balancing libraries, energy-efficient cosmological simulations at extreme scales, and developing autonomy loops for observability and system performance.Prof. Ciorba is a founding board member and principal investigator of the University of Basel node for the SKACH project, part of the Swiss Consortium of the SKAO, and a founding member of the IDEAS4HPC Association—a Swiss chapter of Women in HPC. She holds senior and life memberships with ACM, and memberships with IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, HiPEAC, and DISCOVER-US. She contributes to various forums, committees and boards, including the Energy Efficiency HPC Working Group, SPEC High Performance Group, SciCORE User Board at University of Basel, and DCSR Scientific Advisory Board at University of Lausanne. Over the past decade, Prof. Ciorba has held numerous leadership roles in parallel computing and HPC conferences and workshops. More information is available at her lab’s website http://hpc.dmi.unibas.ch/.