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Schulthess Named New Director of CSCS
Thomas Schulthess—former Group leader of Oak Ridge National Laboratory's (ORNL) Computational Materials Science Group—is the new Director of the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) at Manno. He studied physics and earned his Ph.D. at ETH Zurich. As CSCS director, he will also be professor of computational physics at ETH. He replaces professor Marco Baggiolini who was the acting director of the Centre.
The Swiss National Supercomputing Centre is an institution of ETH Zurich. The new director was elected by ETH President Ralph Eichler, and will also serve as professor of computational physics at ETH. According to professor Ralph Eichler, Thomas Schulthess is an expert of supercomputing and has international scientific reputation. He worked for twelve years at the ORNL in Tennessee, a leading supercomputing and research laboratory in the United States. Since 2002, he led the Computational Materials Science Group and since 2005 the Nanomaterials Theory Institute, with a total of 30 co-workers. "After many years in the United States, I am happy to return to Switzerland and to participate to the further development of the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre," Schulthess said.
 
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