Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Lippert is director of the Institute for Advanced Simulation and head of the Jülich Supercomputing Centre. Simultaneously, he holds the chair for Computational Theoretical Physics at the University of Wuppertal.

Norbert Eicker has been appointed professor in parallel hard- and software systems at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, retaining his position as a scientist at JSC's division Technology.

Paul Gibbon is Associate Professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KUL), Department of Mathematics, where he teaches courses on computational methods and plasma physics. At JSC, he heads the Computational Science division and runs the Plasma Physics Simulation Lab. He is also Topic Speaker for "Computational Science and Mathematical Methods" within the Helmholtz Assocation Programme Supercomputing and Big Data.

Johannes Grotendorst is Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Aachen (FH Aachen). At JSC, he is head of the divison Mathematics and Education and is coordinating JSC's teaching activities for the Master course Technomathematics.

Paul Jansen is Honorary Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Aachen (FH Aachen). At JSC, he is responsible for the management of the MATSE training programme and the Bachelor study course Scientific Programming.

Erik Koch is an associated professor at the RWTH Aachen University for Physics at the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Natural Sciences. At JSC, he works at the Computational Science division.

Kristel Michielsen is an associated professor at the RWTH Aachen University for Theoretical Physics/Quantum Information Processing at the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Natural Sciences. At JSC, she is head of the Quantum Information Processing Group .

Dirk Pleiter is appointed professor for theoretical physics at the University of Regensburg and leads the application-oriented technology development group at JSC. At Regensburg he holds a chair for "Lattice quantum chromodynamics and supercomputing".

Morris Riedel is Adjunct Associated Professor in high productivity processing of big data at the School of Engineering and Natural Sciences of the University of Iceland in Reykjavik, retaining his position as a scientist at JSC in the Federated Systems and Data division.

Giulia Rossetti is Junior Professor for Computational Molecular Science at the Department of Oncology, Hematology and Stem Cell Transplantation, RWTH Aachen University. She retains her position as a scientist working both in the JSC Computational Science division and at the Institute for Advanced Simulations (IAS) - Computational Biomedicine (IAS-5 / INM-9) at Forschungszentrum Jülich .

Armin Seyfried is professor at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal at the department of Computer Simulation for Fire Safety and Pedestrian Traffic. At JSC, he is head of the Civil Security and Traffic division.

Kalman Szabo was recently appointed professor at JSC and the University of Wuppertal. The professorship is funded by the recruit initiative of the Helmholtz Association. His field of expertise is numerical simulations in elementary particle physics.

Godehard Sutmann has been appointed professor for high performance computing in materials science at the Faculty for Mechanical Engineering at Ruhr-University Bochum, retaining his position as a scientist at JSC's division Computational Science.