Presenter

Bastien Chopard received a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Geneva before undertaking postdoctoral studies at MIT and the Jülich Supercomputing Centre. He is now full professor in the computer science department at the University of Geneva, and a member of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics. His research interests are the modeling and simulation of complex systems, cellular automata and lattice Boltzmann methods, multiscale applications, as well as parallel computing and HPC. He has published over 200 articles, and has received research grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation, FP6-FP7-H2020 European projects, private and industry sources.