Keeping with tradition, the PRACE Scientific and Industrial Conference PRACEdays21 was again part of the EuroHPC Summit Week 2021 Digital which took place from 22 to 26 March.
The following PRACE awards were presented to excellent scientists and researchers.
PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC
Dr Céline Merlet from the Centre Inter-universitaire de Recherche et d’Ingénierie des Matériaux (CIRIMAT) in Toulouse is the winner of the 2021 PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC for her outstanding impact on HPC in Europe. Not only has Dr Merlet decisively advanced the investigation of supercapacitors with numerous innovations; she is also active in “Femmes & Sciences”, an association that promotes women in science and technology. Find more information on the award here, and on the awardee here.
PRACE Best Poster Award
The 2021 PRACE Best Poster Award went to José Ricardo Correia, a PhD student in the group of Carlos Martins at the University of Porto and the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences, for his poster and presentation entitled “Coding the Cosmos: A New Generation of Superstring Simulations”. Find out more about Correia and his new generation of simulations here.