Presenter

Luigi Iapichino holds a position of application specialist for astrophysics and quantum computing at LRZ. He is the team lead of the LRZ Application Lab for Astro and Plasma Physics (AstroLab), and LRZ leader in quantum computing. In the PRACE framework, he coordinates the HPC high-level support at LRZ. Among his interests are code modernization for many-core and multi-core architectures, and quantum computing simulations on high-end HPC systems. He completed in 2005 his PhD in physics at the Technical University of Munich, working at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics. Before moving to LRZ in 2014, he worked at the Universities of Würzburg and Heidelberg, involved in research projects related to computational astrophysics.