Prof. Dr. Dirk Pleiter is professor for HPC at KTH, director of the PDC Center for High Performance Computing and senior researcher at Forschungszentrum Jülich. He is the principal investigator of various European research and innovation projects including Maestro. Furthermore, he acts as technical coordinator of the ICEI project, which as part of the Human Brain Project works on providing a productively used federated European HPC, cloud and storage infrastructure. In the past he played a leading role in several projects for developing massively-parallel special purpose computers, including QPACE, and recently worked on Arm-based processor architectures.