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Michael kuhn, md

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This year’s jury chair, Michael Kuhn was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1949. After primary school he left to attend Dover College in England in 1962 and went on to Clare College Cambridge in 1968 to read Law.
He joined Polygram N.V (now part of Universal) in 1975 and in 1991 set up Polygram Filmed Entertainment, which made and distributed over 100 feature films and which between them won 14 Academy Awards. These films included Four Weddings And A Funeral, Notting Hill, Dead Man Walking, The Usual Suspects, Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, Elizabeth, Trainspotting and Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert.
He was awarded the Michael Balcon Award for services to British Cinema in 1999.
Michael married Caroline in 1995 and has two sons. He returned to Britain in 1999, after being based in Los Angeles. He set up Qwerty Films in 1999 and secured finance to produce bigger budget movies and has investments in a music company, theatre and a film development joint venture with the Film Council. Qwerty Films has produced 6 features in its first 4 years of operation, including Stage Beaut

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Scientific Computing // Wissenschaftliches Rechnen

Michael Kuhn is a professor for Parallel Computing and I/O at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. He conducts research in the area of high performance I/O with a special focus on I/O interfaces and data reduction techniques. Other interests of his include file systems and high performance computing in general. Michael is the principal investigator of the CoSEMoS project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Moreover, he is the lead developer of the JULEA storage framework and received a 2019 R&D 100 award for his contributions to the Spack package manager. He regularly offers lectures and courses related to HPC and parallel I/O.

Projects

Committee Memberships

  • 2020, Program Committee (Cluster, Cloud and Edge Computing) at International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par) 2020
  • 2020, Publicity Chair for Germany at International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par) 2020
  • 2019–2020, Program Committee at International Conferen
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    Michael Kühn

    Michael Kühn has more than 30 years experience in the international field with NGOs and in initiatives pursuing social justice, human rights, sustainable development, peace-building and environmental protection. He has spent half of his career in the field, in strategic and management positions in conflicting environments. 

    He joined Welthungerhilfe in 2007, first as Country Director in Haïti and since 2010 as Deputy Director of the Policy and External Relations Unit. His advocacy and policy portfolio include humanitarian affairs, climate change politics, disaster risk reduction, resilience building, rights-based approaches and risk financing systems. Michael Kühn has proven track record of working in multicultural and conflicting environments, development of advocacy strategies and in external communication.

    Michal holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science and Medieval History from University of Hamburg.

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