Dr. Sarah Neuwirth is a full professor for computer science and head of the "High Performance Computing and its Applications" group at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. Previously, Sarah was deputy head of the "Modular Supercomputing and Quantum Computing" group at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. In 2018, she completed her PhD in computer science at Heidelberg University, Germany. Her research is focused on parallel file systems, modular supercomputing, performance engineering, networking, reproducible benchmarking, parallel I/O, and parallel programming models. For her outstanding work in high performance computing, she was awarded the "2023 PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC" and the "ZONTA Science Award 2019". Sarah has worked on numerous research collaborations including working with: the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (DEEP Project Series, EUPEX), the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, and Virginia Tech.