I am a Scientific Programmer in the Astrophysical Relativity Division at the Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert-Einstein-Institute, AEI). In this division I am leading a small e-Science group of currently four other computer scientists who are working for AstroGrid-D and DGI, two partner projects in the German e-Science initiative D-Grid which is funded by the BMBF.

The focus of this e-Science group is to provide the Astrophysicists in the Numerical Relativity Group and the Gravitational Wave Group with innovative software tools and taylored techniques to efficiently perform numerical simulations as well as large-scale data analysis tasks. Specifically, this includes areas such as performance optimization, parallel I/O, remote visualization, monitoring and steering of running Cactus jobs, and Grid Computing issues.