Laura Grigori is a Full Professor at EPFL and PSI and Chair of high performance Numerical algorithms and simulations. She has received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Université Henri Poincaré, France, INRIA Lorraine. After spending two years at UC Berkeley and LBNL as a postdoctoral researcher, she has joined INRIA where she has lead Alpines group from 2013 to 2023, a joint group between INRIA and J.L. Lions Laboratory, Sorbonne University, in Paris. She is a SIAM Fellow, the recipient of an ERC Synergy Grant, and of the SIAM Supercomputing Career Prize in 2024. Her field of expertise is numerical linear, multilinear algebra, and high performance scientific computing for challenging applications ranging from astrophysics to molecular simulations.