Our lab member Valentin Churavy is joining Saarland University to build up a new interdisciplinary research group at the intersection of the Center for Scientific and High-Performance Computing (CSHPC) and the Compiler Design Lab. After nearly two years in a joint position at our lab and Hendrik Ranocha's research group at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, he is heading further west to Saarbrücken, where he will focus on parallel programming languages, compiler techniques, and HPC performance optimization.

Valentin joined our lab in August 2024 and has worked on high-performance computing — especially GPU acceleration — within our Trixi framework packages Trixi.jl and TrixiParticles.jl. Alongside this, he continued his work on automatic differentiation in Julia and on improving the Julia language from the compiler side.
We wish Valentin all the best for his new position and the next chapter of his scientific journey!