Dr. Lauritz Thamsen | University of Glasgow | Systems

I am a Lecturer in Computer Systems in the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow. I am generally passionate about making computing more efficient, resilient, and sustainable. To this end, I work on methods and tools that make it easier to create resource-efficient and reliable distributed computer systems, for example through adaptive resource management and carbon-aware computing. A particular focus is on data-intensive applications (e.g. data analytics, scientific workflows, AI/ML) running on cloud or edge infrastructure. At Glasgow, I lead the Carbon-Conscious Computing Lab, I am a member of the Systems Section, and I contribute to the Low-Carbon and Sustainable Computing theme. Beyond Glasgow, I co-lead a research collaboration with TU Berlin.

Lauritz Thamsen

Previously, I was a senior researcher in the Distributed and Operating Systems group at TU Berlin, where I drove the research on Adaptive Resource Management with a team of PhD students and lectured on Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems. At the same time, I also collaborated closely with the Operating Systems and Middleware group at Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI), mainly on Distributed Systems Engineering. In addition, I was a guest professor in the Knowledge Management group and the Department of Computer Science at HU Berlin, where I lectured on Data-Intensive Systems, contributed to the research activities of the DFG Collaborative Research Center FONDA, and substituted for Ulf Leser.

I got my PhD from TU Berlin, working on dynamic resource allocation for distributed dataflows in the BMBF-funded Berlin Big Data Center and the DFG Research Unit Stratosphere under Odej Kao. Before that, I was part of the Software Architecture Group of Robert Hirschfeld and the Research School at HPI. Furthermore, I have worked at SAP Labs in Palo Alto, California, in the Technology Infrastructure Practice group, under Dan Ingalls, and at Signavio in Berlin.

contact

lauritz.thamsen at glasgow.ac.uk
+44 141 330 2000 (x0652)

office

Room S152
Sir Alwyn Williams Bldg

web

Bluesky: lauritzthamsen.org
LinkedIn: lauritzthamsen

news

  • April 2026: LOCO, the International Workshop on Low Carbon Computing we started two years ago, returns as LOCO 2026 Workshop on 10–11 September in Lancaster and online, organized by Adrian Friday and team. Short paper and lightning talk submissions for the arXiv proceedings are due by 29 May.
  • March 2026: Our new article in Future Generation Computer Systems, presenting joint work with HU Berlin on the potential of carbon-aware scheduling and scaling for scientific data analysis workflows, is available open access.
  • January 2026: The post-proceedings of our 1st International Workshop on Low-Carbon Computing (LOCO 2024) are online as arXiv proceedings.
  • December 2025: We are organizing TDIS again, our workshop on testbeds, benchmarking, and experimentation tools for distributed systems in the edge/cloud continuum. The workshop will be held again with ACM EuroSys 2026 at the end of April in Edinburgh next year.
  • November 2025: I will be attending the FONDA workshop on the carbon emissions of large-scale computational data analysis, which will take place on November 25 and 26 at HU Berlin, to present ongoing work on carbon emissions estimation. [slides]
  • October 2025: Max MacDonald and Tobias Froehlich are two new doctoral researchers working with us on carbon-conscious computing topics, with the aim to raise awareness and change behavior.
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collaborations

  • Academic and industry collaborations: If you are interested in making distributed computer systems more efficient and sustainable with me, let me know.
  • Student and project supervision: I am always looking to work with motivated research students. Please have a look here and get in touch.
  • Community service: I am available for scientific community service in areas such as edge and cloud computing, data-intensive systems, and sustainable computing.