About University of Stuttgart

The University of Stuttgart is a higher education organisation with about 5,500 employees and 21,500 students. The University’s research profile is characterised by a strong focus on energy and environment, mobility, new materials research, modelling and simulation technology, and complex systems and communication.

The universities of Baden-Württemberg jointly operate a range of high-performance computing clusters with different capabilities and uses cases called bwHPC (https://www.bwhpc.de). The CAFE-BIO Doctoral Candidate will be part of the ITP4 institute, which has access to several of these clusters. Thomas Speck is director of the ITP4 which is situated within the building of the Max-Planck-Institute for Intelligent Systems close to the main campus of the University.