Estela Suarez is research group leader at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre, which she joined in 2010. Since 2022 she is also Professor for High Performance Computing at the University of Bonn. Her research focuses on HPC system architectures and codesign. As leader of the DEEP project series she has driven the development of the Modular Supercomputing Architecture, including hardware, software and application implementation and validation. Additionally, since 2018 she leads the codesign efforts within the European Processor Initiative. She holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Geneva (Switzerland) and a Master degree in Astrophysics from the University Complutense of Madrid (Spain). Research interests: high performance computing (HPC), heterogeneous HPC system architectures, modular supercomputing architecture (MSA), hardware prototyping and evaluation, software environment development, co-design and application optimization.