Dr.-Ing. Dominik Brands is a postdoctoral researcher and senior lecturer at the Institute of Mechanics at University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE). Additionally, he is a board member of the Center for Computational Sciences and Simulation at UDE and coordinates the activities of the UDE within the competence network HPC.NRW. In his research, he is focusing on the multiscale simulations of heterogeneous materials and the high performance computation (HPC) in solid mechanics. In addition to his research activities, he is team leader of the HPC Support Team of the ZIM assisting other UDE-researchers from all fields of computational sciences with focus on HPC.