Peter Waldert is a PhD Student in the HEREDITARY EU project where he works on high-performance simulation techniques in combination with approaches from Optimisation and Visual Analytics. Peter completed two Bachelor’s degrees in Physics and ICE (Information and Computer Engineering) simultaneously after which he moved to the UK to pursue a Master’s in Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing at the University of Oxford. Since then he has been working in different research settings on mostly biomedical topics, combining expertise from maths, physics and computer science.