Dr. Sarah Neuwirth holds the professorship for "High Performance Computing and its Applications" at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz from October 2023. This position is associated with the direction of the High Performance Computing division in the Center for Data Processing at JGU. Previously, Dr. Neuwirth was deputy head of the research group "Modular Supercomputing and Quantum Computing" at Goethe University Frankfurt. In 2018, she completed her PhD in computer science at Heidelberg University. For her outstanding work in high performance computing, she was awarded the "2023 PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC" and the "ZONTA Science Award 2019". Her research interests include parallel file and memory systems, modular supercomputing, performance engineering, high performance computing and networking, benchmarking, parallel I/O, and communication protocols. Sarah has worked on numerous research collaborations including working with: the Jülich Supercomputing Centre (DEEP Project Series, EUPEX), the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Her projects are funded by the European Commission, DOE, ORAU, and ORNL.