Elisabetta Boella

Elisabetta Boella received her M.Sc. degree in Energy and Nuclear Engineering in 2009 from Politecnico di Torino (Turin, Italy) and her Ph.D. in Computational Plasma Physics in 2014 from the same institution. She currently works as HPC product specialist at E4 Computer Engineering (Scandiano, Italy), where she leads the company effort in the European projects SPACE, MaX, and EoCoE III financed by EuroHPC JU, and DECICE and DYNAMOS financed by HADEA.

Her research interests include numerical modelling, parallel programming, and co-design practices. She has a long-time experience in the development and optimisation of parallel codes using the Message Passing Interface protocol. She is one of the main developers of the massively parallel plasma codes ECsim and iPiC3D. She also has extensive experience in Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) programming and off-loading of legacy codes to GPU.