Funding and awards

Jan 2018: Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute
15 month Fellowship of the Software Sustainability Institute to promote good practice is research software engineering (worth £3,000)
Apr 2017: Internal Secondment, Bath IMI
Secondment awarded by the Bath Institute for Mathematical Innovation. As an internal secondee I will implement new multigrid solvers in the Met Office forecast models.
June 2013: Award for Best Presentation
Best Talk at University of Bath HPC Symposium
September 2009: Oreste Piccioni Diploma
School of Subnuclear Physics, Erice, Sicily
September 2003 - July 2004: Scholarship holder of DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)
Competitive scholarship for funding my one year exchange at the University of Edinburgh
Autumn 2002 - Summer 2002: Scholarship holder of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation)
Competitive scholarship awarded to the top 0.5 percent of German University students

March 2013 - September 2013: Computer time on EMERALD GPU Cluster
7,800 GPU hours / 22800 CPU hours awarded over a period of sixth months (together with Prof. Rob Scheichl and Prof. Eero Vainikko)
January 2013 - January 2016: Research Co-Investigator on NERC grant NE/K006754/1
Research grant worth £230,000 led by Prof. Rob Scheichl (PI) and Dr. Andreas Dedner (Co-Investigator)
September 2011 - April 2014: Computer time on HECToR
10 mio Allocation Units (worth approximately £58,000) awarded over a period of 2.5 years (together with Prof. Rob Scheichl and Dr. Stephen Pickles)
August 2007: University of Edinburgh Small Project Grant
Student travel grant worth £1,000 for attending Summerschool on Lattice QCD and Applications, Seattle