Markus Berndt received a Diplom in Mathematics from the University of Dusseldorf in Germany and then a M.S. and Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Subsequently he took a postdoctoral researcher position in Theoretical Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to study parallel multigrid methods. As a scientist in LANL’s Theoretical and later Computer, Computational and Statistical Sciences Division, he has brought his expertise in computational physics, parallel algorithm development, and the design of multi-physics HPC codes to bear on the development of several LANL multi-physics codes in various program areas, including ASC, DOE-EM, DOE-NE, and LDRD. Markus has project leadership experience in ASC, DTRA, and CASL. He served as Deputy Group Leader (2015-2019) and Group Leader (2019-2022) of the Computational Physics and Methods group CCS-2, and is currently the Deputy Division Leader for LANL’s High Performance Computing Division.
