Prof. Dr. Ramin Yahyapour

Prof. Dr. Ing. Ramin Yahyapour

Managing Director, GWDG GmbH

Ramin Yahyapour is Professor of Applied Computer Science at the Georg-August University of Göttingen since 2011. His research interests lie in eScience and infrastructures for collaborative, data- and computational-intensive research, as well as artificial intelligence. He publishes regularly at relevant journals and conferences.

Prof. Yahyapour is Chief Information Officer of the University Medical Center and the University of Göttingen. In this role, he is jointly responsible for the site's digitization strategy. He is speaker of the board of the Campus Institute Data Science at the University of Göttingen.

Ramin Yahyapour is managing director of the Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG), the joint IT competence and computing center of the Max Planck Society and the University of Göttingen. The GWDG provides various computing and data services for the Göttingen campus and beyond, i.e. in various national infrastructures. The GWDG is one of nine National High Performance Computing Centers (NHR), one of the National AI Service Centers and partner of several consortia of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI). GWDG is also a partner and operator site of the German Aerospace Center for High-Performance Computing.