Bertil Schmidt is tenured full Professor of HPC at JGU Mainz. Prior to that he was faculty member at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. His research group has designed and implemented a variety of massively parallel algorithms and tools focusing on the analysis of large-scale bioinformatics datasets on numerous platforms including GPUs, FPGAs, and various Supercomputers. For his pioneering research work on GPU computing, he has received one of the first CUDA Academic Partnership awards, a CUDA Professor Partnership, and three IEEE Best Paper Awards (IEEE ASAP 2009, IEEE ASAP 2015, IEEE HiPC 2020) plus industry funding from NVIDIA and AMD. His active collaboration with Shandong University and Seoul National University has led to various parallel methods for life science applications that can scale towards tens of thousands of nodes on world-leading supercomputers. He serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC) and the Journal of Computational Science (JoCS). He also authored the textbook “Parallel Programming: Concepts and Practice” which provides an upper level introduction to parallel programming.