He received the Dipl.-Ing. (M.Sc.) degree in Technical Mathematics and the Dr. techn. (Ph.D.) degree in Computational Mathematics from the Vienna University of Technology in 2000 and 2003, respectively. In 2006 he was member of the team winning the Gordon Bell Prize (Peak Performance Award) and in 2010 he was member of the team winning the HPC Challenge Class II Award (most productive system). In 2013 he received the CIT Dean's Early Career Fellowship awarded by the College of Engineering of Carnegie Mellon University. In 2008 he received the City of Wiener Neustadt Culture Prize (awarded in Science) and in 2001 the Austrian Computer Society Award (OCG-Forderpreis). From 2004 to 2005 his work at Carnegie Mellon was funded by an Erwin Schroedinger Stipendium.