Dr. Deumens appointed Director of High Performance Computing

Dr. Erik Deumens has been appointed as the first Director of the High Performance Computing (HPC). Erik will also continue to be the Director for Computing for the Quantum Theory Project (QTP) where he is responsible for operating the computing environment at QTP. Since 1994, he has been involved in the development of a high performance, portable, parallel software library for quantum chemical integrals, called QTIP as testing ground for research and teaching of high quality software engineering. He also lectures on High Performance Computing Topics covering all issues involved in programming for scientific computing: including architecture of modern CPU's and parallel computers, object oriented design, correct programming, debugging and performance analysis, message passing programming, and thread programming.

Erik received his Ph.D. in Physics in 1982 and his DSc in 1984 from the University of Brussels. Erik holds a Scientist faculty line in the departments of Chemistry and Physics and has been at the University of Florida since 1990.