Dr Emily Bourne is a high-performance computing specialist at EPFL’s SCITAS group, where she focuses on large-scale plasma physics simulations and the optimisation of scientific codes using tools like OpenACC and Kokkos. She holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from Aix-Marseille University. As the main developer of Gyselalib++, a C++ library for plasma physics research, and an active contributor to Pyccel, a Python-to-Fortran/C transpiler, her work supports high-performance computing in scientific applications.