Sandra Gesing

Sandra Gesing is the Scientific Outreach and DEI Lead at the Discovery Partner Institute (DPI), University of Illinois Chicago, USA Her research interests include science gateways, computational workflows as well as distributed and parallel computing. In this context, she also works on analysis frameworks for modeling and simulations. Prior to the position at DPI, she was an Associate Research Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and a computational scientist at the Center for Research Computing at the University of Notre Dame, USA. Before she moved to the US, she was a research associate in the Data-Intensive Research Group at the University of Edinburgh, UK, in the area of data-intensive workflows and in the Applied Bioinformatics Group at the University of Tübingen, Germany, in the area of science gateways and grid computing. Additionally, she has perennial experience as a project manager and system developer in industry. As head of a system programmer group, she has led long-term software projects (e.g. infrastructure on web-based applications). She received her German diploma (equivalent to a Master's degree) in computer science from extramural studies at the FernUniversität Hagen and her PhD in computer science from the University of Tübingen, Germany.