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Sverker Holmgren
Senior Lecturer

Head of Research

Address: Division of Scientific Computing Department of Information Technology Uppsala University Box 337 SE-751 05 Uppsala Sweden Visit: ITC building 2, floor 3, room 2312 Phone: +46 18 - 471 2992 Mobile: +46 70 580 58 87 +46 70 425 07 97 Fax: +46 18 523049, +46 18 511925 Email: Sverker.Holmgren@it.uu.se

Position

• Head of the cross-disciplinary research program in Computational Science at Uppsala University (2007).
• Associate professor (Docent) in Numerical Analysis (1999).
• Senior Lecturer (Universitetslektor) in Scientific Computing (1993).

CV and Publications.

Research

• Numerical methods for quantum dynamics
• Numerical methods for genetic analysis of complex traits
• Algorithms and implementations for multicore and parallel architectures
• Scientific applications on GRID systems
• Preconditioned iterative methods for PDE

One of the Principal Investigators within the Linnaeus Center of Excellence UPMARC

Coordinator for the production of the eSSENCE proposal for the strategic research area e-Science. In autumn 2009, the Department of Education granted the eSSENCE consortium 102 MSEK for 2010-2014.

Current PhD Students (Principal Advisor)

• Mahen Jayawardena
• Katharina Kormann
• Carl Nettelblad
• Salman Toor
• Magnus Gustafsson
• Marcus Lundberg

Supervised Exams

• Henrik Brandén, PhD Numerical Analysis, 2001 (Principal Advisor)
• Per Sundqvist, PhD Numerical Analysis, 2005 (Principal Advisor, shared with H. Brandén)
• Kajsa Ljungberg, PhD Scientific Computing, 2006 (Principal Advisor)
• Dan Wallin, PhD Computer Science, 2006 (Advisor)
• Henrik Löf, PhD Scientific Computing, 2006 (Advisor)
• Markus Nordén, PhD Scientific Computing, 2006 (Advisor)
• Kateryna Mishchenko, PhD Applied Mathematics, 2008 (Principal Advisor)

• Åsa Petterson, Lic Quantum Chemistry, 1998 (Advisor)
• Mahen Jayawardena, Lic Scientific Computing, 2007 (Principal Advisor)
• Andreas Hellander, Lic Scientific Computing, 2008 (Advisor)
• Katharina Kormann, Lic Scientific Computing, 2009 (Principal Advisor)

Main Assignments

Director (from July 2006) for the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing, SNIC. SNIC is a metacentre within the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) with a mandate to provide unified access to large-scale computing and storage resources for Swedish research. SNIC is responsible for coordinating the strategic and scientific development and funding of such resources in Sweden.

Earlier (until June 2006) Director for and responsible for the build-up of Uppsala Multidisciplinary Center for Advanced Computational Science, UPPMAX. UPPMAX is the regional computing center in Uppsala, and it is one of the six Swedish HPC centers within SNIC.

Chairman of the board for the National Graduate School in Scientific Computing, NGSSC. Earlier (until June 2006) Director for NGSSC.

Swedish representative in the for the Nordic Data Grid Facility, NDGF. Chairman during 2009 and Deputy Chairman during 2008. NDGF is a collaborative effort by the Nordic research councils for building and operating a Nordic production grid facility.

Swedish representative in the European Grid Initiative, EGI Council. Member of the EGI Council Steering Group since 2009. The goal of EGI is to create and operate a sustainable European grid infrastructure.

Swedish representative in the Enabling Grids for E-Science, EGEE Collaboration Board since 2207. The EC project EGEE has built the largest multi-disciplinary grid infrastructure in the world.

Appointed by the Ministry of Education as the Swedish representative in the European e-Infrastructure Reflection Group, e-IRG) since December 2008. Member of the e-IRG executive board during 2009, including the Swedish EU presidency during autumn 2009.

Swedish representative in the NORIA-net group The Nordic eScience Initiative (eNORIA) since April 2008. eNORIA is funded by NordForsk. Among other assignments, eNORIA has a mandate from the Nordic Council of Ministers to produce a plan for future Nordic eScience, which was published in 2009.