Since 2003, Prof. Michael Resch has been the Director of the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, home of one of the fastest civil computing systems in Europe.He also manages the Institute of High Performance Computing.

Born in Graz, Austria in 1964, Prof. Resch studied technical mathematics at the Technical University in Graz. Work for the Joanneum Research Association in Graz was followed by employment as a technical assistant and department and team head at the Computing Center of the University of Stuttgart and the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart until 2001. In 2002, he became assistant professor at the University of Houston, Texas, USA.

Prof. Resch has received numerous awards, including the Award for High Performance Distributed Computing of the National Science Foundation, the HPC Challenge Award, and the Microsoft Early Contributor Award. He has also received honorary doctorates from the Technical University at Donezk, Ukraine and the Russian Academy of Sciences. Prof. Resch is an honorary professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences.