Dr. Christian Terboven is a senior scientist at RWTH Aachen University and leads the High-Performance Computing (HPC) group at the IT Center and the Chair for Computer Science 12 - High-Performance Computing. As the service manager for RWTH's HPC service, he is responsible for formulating and implementing RWTH's HPC strategy.His research interests center around Parallel Programming – with a focus on Shared-Memory architectures, Paradigms, Programming Languages, and related Software Engineering aspects. He has been involved in the Analysis, Tuning, and Parallelization of several large-scale simulation codes for various architectures. He offers lectures and software labs on parallel and data-centric programming. Since 2006, Christian is a member of the OpenMP Language Committee. In this capacity, he leads the Affinity subcommittee, working on the association of computation with data, for instance on NUMA architectures. At RWTH, he is responsible for the technical specification and procurement of its HPC systems and the HPC operating model. He has been recognized as a Microsoft MVP (MVP Exec Summary) five times.Specialties: Parallel Programming, OpenMP, C++, Shared-Memory Architectures, Performance Analysis