Axel Huebl is a computational laser-plasma physicist working on Exascale simulations. As a scientist at Berkeley Lab, he leads the software architecture of the Beam, Plasma & Accelerator Simulation Toolkit (BLAST). He co-first-authored the paper winning the 2022 ACM Gordon Bell Prize, running the BLAST code WarpX on the first reported Exascale machine Frontier.In 2019, he completed his PhD with highest distinction at TU Dresden (Germany) and received awards for his pioneering work on PIConGPU (Gordon Bell Finalist @ SC13; ACM/IEEE George Michael Memorial Fellowship @ SC16; FoMICS PhD prize @ PASC17; IEEE-NPSS PAST award 2022). He is a vivid advocate for open science and founded the open particle-mesh data project (openPMD) for self-describing, scalable I/O and data science.