Alexander’s work tackles computationally demanding challenges in research and industry.His work covers the involved disciplines from the bare metal of computer architectures to fully automated production workflows by integrating modeling and simulation, high-performance computing, software engineering, data analytics, and verification and validation. This overarching approach is key for building visionary, transferable, robust and efficient software pipelines.In 2014 Alexander was honored with an ACM/IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship for his Ph.D. project "High Performance Earthquake Simulations".In addition, he and his collaborators have been awarded with the PRACE ISC Award and nominated as ACM Gordon Bell finalists.Alexander holds a doctoral degree from the Technical University of Munich and currently leads the Scalable Data- and Compute-intensive Analyses lab at the University of Jena.