Sarah Neuwirth Wins the 2023 PRACE Ada Lovelace Award

Dr. Sarah Neuwirth is this year’s winner of the PRACE Ada Lovelace Award, which is annually awarded to a female scientist making an outstanding contribution to and impact on HPC in Europe and the world, and who serves as a role model for women at the start of their scientific careers. In her PhD thesis, she demonstrated for the first time that it is possible to disaggregate CPUs and GPUs and to use them in combination, thus enabling modular supercomputing – a cornerstone on the path to exascale supercomputers. She acted as principle investigator and contributed to a number of European and nationally funded research projects, e.g. to the DEEP series and the European Pilot for Exascale (EUPEX). In addition to her technical work, she acted as member of the Equal Opportunities Council at her university, joined round tables discussing the role of women in HPC at supercomputing conferences, and contributed in many other ways to encourage young female talents to start a career in STEM.

At the time PRACE announced the awardee, Dr. Neuwirth was deputy group leader of the Modular Supercomputing and Quantum Computing Group at Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany, and visiting scientist at the JSC. She recently joined Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz as professor and leader of the “High-Performance Computing and its Applications” group.

More information about the award can be found on the PRACE and Goethe University websites.

Contact: Dr. Florian Berberich

from JSC News No. 299, 27 October 2023