Gerasimos Chourdakis, M.Sc.

Teaching

Between 2018-2024, I was continuously involved in several courses, primarily for the M.Sc. CSE. See my deRSE24 talk for an overview. I led redesigning the M.Sc. course Advanced Programming, as well as the onboarding course CSE Primer. For a few years, I also taught in the M.Sc. courses CFD Lab, FSI Seminar, as well as the B.Sc. seminar Scientists & Ethics, and assisted in Ferienakademie. In 2021, our proposal "Beyond CSE Primer: Onboarding for computational degree programs" was funded as part of the TUM Ideas Competition.

Winter semester 2023/24

• CSE Primer interactive lecture & tutorial (Moodle)
• Advanced Programming (Moodle)

Selected publications and talks

• M. Mühlhäußer, G. Chourdakis, B. Uekermann: Partitioned flow simulations with preCICE and OpenFOAM, ECCOMAS Coupled Problems 2023, June 2023.
• G. Chourdakis, D. Schneider, B. Uekermann: OpenFOAM-preCICE: Coupling OpenFOAM with external solvers for multi-physics simulations, OpenFOAM® Journal, 3, 1–25, February 2023.
• G. Chourdakis: Growing preCICE from an as-is coupling library to a sustainable, batteries-included ecosystem, Best Practices for HPC Software Developers, July 2022.
• G. Chourdakis, K. Davis, B. Rodenberg, M. Schulte, F. Simonis, B. Uekermann, et al.: preCICE v2: A sustainable and user-friendly coupling library [version 1; peer review: 2 approved], Open Res Europe 2022, 2:51, April 2022.
• G. Chourdakis, B. Uekermann, G. V. Zwieten, and H. V. Brummelen: Coupling OpenFOAM to different solvers, physics, models, and dimensions using preCICE, 14th OpenFOAM Workshop, Duisburg, Germany, submitted (proceedings publication delayed/cancelled), July 2019.

Other activities

• Organizing the de-RSE Chapter Munich, together with other members of the community (3/2023 - today)
• Organizing and contact person at TUM for the Competence Network for Scientific High Performance Computing in Bavaria - KONWIHR (9/2018 - today)
• Active member of the OpenFOAM Journal Editorial Advisory Board (12/2022 - today)
• Started and organizing the OpenFOAM Special Interests Group: Research Software Engineering (7/2022 - today)
• Contributing in the coordination of the regional HPC competence networks and the NHR Alliance in respect of training activities, representing KONWIHR and working with NHR@FAU. (7/2021 - 12/2022)
• Started and organized the (internal) SCCS RSE Café (10/2020 - 5/2022)
• Organized the preCICE Workshop 2023 and the preCICE Workshop 2020
• Co-organized sessions in conferences, including ECCOMAS Coupled Problems 2021, ECCOMAS Congress 2022, IACM CFC 2023, ECCOMAS Coupled Problems 2023. Organized sessions at the 17th and 18th OpenFOAM Workshops.
• Organized the SCCS Colloquium (1/2019 - 9/2021)
• Frequent contributions to the Quartl (e.g. issues 91, 92, 93, 95, 97, 100, 106).
• Registered first aider / first responder for SCCS (7/2019 - today)

Appreciation

Working at SCCS and TUM in general is great, because of (among many other reasons):

• The academic freedom and independence / increased trust at doctoral candidates at SCCS, as well as the relaxed culture, the well-attended lunch and coffee breaks, and Philipp's espresso knowledge,
• The excellent and extremely helpful job done by the RBG (and by extent our local chair SysAds), including providing instances of BigBlueButton, Nextcloud, HedgeDoc, Matrix, managing the equipment in the computer rooms and seminar rooms we use for courses, streaming and recording our lectures (and even workshops) with TUMLive, printing our conference posters, and always replying very quickly and thoroughly,
• The really convenient TUMExam system to organize the personalization, correction, grading, and review of exams,
• The very dedicated team at ProLehre, offering training and advice regarding anything teaching-related,
• and many more.

Last but not least, each and every one at the preCICE team makes work feel easier and more fulfilling.