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 have been co-leading a research collaboration with TU Berlin.

Lauritz Thamsen

My research has attracted both academic and industrial recognition. At Glasgow, I hold an EPSRC New Investigator Award to work on carbon-aware scalable processing in elastic clusters (2025–2027), collaborating with AWS, BBC R&D, and HU Berlin. Previously, at TU Berlin, I made significant contributions to multiple successful research proposals, which enabled me to build and mentor my first research team. This resulted in several publications at leading international conferences, including the ICWS 2022 Best Paper and the PerCom 2021 Best Work-in-Progress Paper, as well as a widely cited Middleware 2021 paper on carbon-aware computing that attracted media and industry attention. In addition, I received the Early-Career Teaching Excellence Award of the University of Glasgow's College of Science and Engineering in 2025, reflecting both my day-to-day teaching practice and strategic initiatives to embed sustainability into our curriculum.

Previously, I was a senior researcher in the Distributed and Operating Systems group at TU Berlin, where I drove 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

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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.