Prof. Dr. Estela Suarez is Joint Lead of the department Novel System Architecture Design at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre, which she joined in 2010. Since 2022 she is also Associate Professor of High Performance Computing at the University of Bonn, and member of the RIAG (Research and Innovation Advisory Board from EuroHPC JU). Her research focuses on HPC system architecture 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. She also 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).