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Prof. Dr. Doris Agotai has been the Director of the FHNW School of Computer Science since January 2025. The FHNW School of Computer Science harnesses the transformative power of computer science to shape a meaningful and sustainable future. It offers degree programmes and research opportunities in computer science, data science, and artificial intelligence. In addition, it also promotes lifelong learning, and supports technology transfer between the university and industry.After completing her studies and doctorate at ETH Zurich, Doris Agotai has been teaching and researching at the FHNW since 2007. She founded the Institute for Interactive Technologies in 2018 and has been head of the research & services department since 2021, which promotes exchange between teaching, research, and industry.

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).

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.

Peter is a Professor in the department of Aeronautics at Imperial College, working at the interface between mathematics, computing, fluid dynamics, and aeronautical engineering. He has a PhD from the department of Aeronautics at Imperial College in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics, and previously served as a Postdoctoral Scholar in the department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University. He is a 2016 Gordon Bell Prize finalist, and a 2016 Philip Leverhulme Prize winner. He plays an active role in his community, co-leading the PyFR project, and acting as a Principal Editor for Computer Physics Communications. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.