Florina Ciorba is an Associate Professor of High Performance Computing at the University of Basel. She was a senior scientist at TU Dresden (2010-2015) and a postdoc at Mississippi State University (2008-2010). She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from NTUA, Greece, in 2008. Florina and co-authors won best paper awards at Cluster 2019, IPDPSW ParLearning 2014, ICPDC 2014, and ISPDC 2011, 2023. She is a member of ACM (Life & Senior), IEEE, OpenMP ARB, SPEC HPG, and HiPEAC, and a founding member of IDEAS4HPC – a Swiss Chapter of WHPC. Her research focuses on scalable performance optimization, system and application observability and data analytics, and security in HPC.