The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) announces Prof. Dr. Dieter Kranzlmüller, Chair of the Board of Directors and Managing Director of the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Garching near Munich, as its new Chair of the Board of Directors. He was elected to chair the GCS board in late April during a GCS council meeting in Garching. It is Prof. Kranzlmüller’s first term as GCS’ Chair of the Board.