Hermann Lederer

DEISA and the European HPC Ecosystem

Garching Computing Centre of the Max Planck Society

Dr. Hermann Lederer is head of application support at Garching Computing Centre of the Max Planck Society (RZG). He received a diploma in physics from the University of Munich (LMU) and a PhD in Natural Sciences from the Technical University of Munich (TUM). After a post-doc position at Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried with research stays at Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble, Risoe National Laboratory in Roskilde, and DESY in Hamburg, he took a position at RZG. After a group leader position for workstations and applications, he became head of the high performance applications group and project manager at RZG for supercomputing projects of the Max Planck Society in 1995. After leading the European Applications Task Force and Joint Research Activities in Plasma Physics and Materials Science in the FP6 DEISA project, he became work package leader for external relations and dissemination in the FP7 DEISA2 project.