Institute for Advanced Simulation (IAS)

The division’s main focus of research is on crowd and fire dynamics in the context of civil engineering and safety science.

Jülich Supercomputing Centre operates computers of the highest performance class. The supercomputers JUWELS and JURECA are currently among the most powerful supercomputers in the world.

Living matter is characterized by activity and energy consumption. What are the structures, dynamics, and collective behaviours, which develop under such non-equilibrium conditions? IAS-2 employs theoretical methods and numerical simulations to address such questions in systems from macromolecules to cells and tissues.

IAS-3 works at the fundamental level on the theory of quantum information processing, developing new concepts for qubits and multi-qubit modules. 

IAS-5/INM-9 develops and applies HPC-based multi-scale molecular simulation tools, along with structural bioinformatics and data science approaches, to investigate molecular processes playing important roles for neuronal (dys-)function. This knowledge is then exploited for in silico ligand design.

The division’s main focus of research is on crowd and fire dynamics in the context of civil engineering and safety science.