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, focusing on distributed computer systems. Within the School, I lead the Glasgow Carbon-Conscious Computing (GC3) lab and I am part of the Glasgow Systems Section (GLASS), among other groups and collaborative research efforts. Beyond the School, I started the Distributed Systems Engineering Laboratory (diselab), a collaboration with researchers from TU Berlin and Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI), and co-lead the joint work on Adaptive Resource Management (ARM) with TU Berlin. I am generally keen on making computing more accessible and sustainable. To this end, I work on methods and tools that make it easier to create resource-efficient and resilient distributed computer systems, for example through carbon-aware computing in edge and cloud infrastructures.
Previously, I was a senior researcher in the Distributed and Operating Systems group at TU Berlin, where I lectured on Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems, and a guest professor in the Department of Computer Science at HU Berlin, where I lectured on Data-Intensive Systems. 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. I also worked at SAP Labs in Palo Alto, California, in the Technology Infrastructure Practice group, under Dan Ingalls, and at Signavio in Berlin.