Achim Streit

Prof. Achim Streit is a Professor for distributed and parallel high-performance systems at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and has served as one of the directors of the Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC) since 2010. He actively leads national and international initiatives including the Helmholtz program "Engineering Digital Futures", the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI), and the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), with SCC operating GridKa—the German data hub for particle physics and a Tier 1 center of the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid.

His research centers on secure, distributed management of large-scale scientific data, emphasizing metadata standards, AI-driven knowledge extraction, and quantum machine learning. He develops scalable solutions for data-intensive fields like climate research, materials science, and particle physics while prioritizing energy efficiency on heterogeneous computing systems. Streit champions open science, ensuring freely accessible software and datasets through rigorous research software engineering practices.

The SCC under his direction implements federated IT services across Helmholtz platforms (HMC, Helmholtz.AI, HIFIS) and NFDI consortia (NFDI4Ing, NFDI-MatWerk, PUNCH4NFDI). His team collaborates extensively with disciplines ranging from energy research to humanities, focusing on distributed authentication infrastructures, data archiving, and resource optimization for global scientific communities.