Sandra Diaz Pier

Sandra Diaz Pier was born in Mexico City, has a Bachelor in Electronic systems engineering, a masters in computer science with specialization on quantum computing, a masters in electronics engineering and a PhD in computer science with focus on computational neuroscience. Since 2023 she is Scientific Leader of the Simulation and Data Lab Neuroscience at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany. Her research focus is on high performance computing, simulation of brain dynamics and plasticity at different scales, and optimization. She is an active collaborator in the implementation of the infrastructure derived from the Human Brain Project, EBRAINS. She was also member of the High level support steering committee and active in the technical coordination and education programme of the project. She has participated in several EU projects including the Human Brain Project (HBP), Virtual Brain Cloud, eBRAIN-Health and Virtual Brain Twin. She has also contributed to open source codes like the NEST simulator (https://github.com/nest/nest-simulator), The Virtual Brain (https://github.com/the-virtual-brain), and L2L (https://github.com/Meta-optimization/L2L).