Ivona Brandić (born December 23, 1977) is a Bosnian–Austrian computer scientist known for her research on

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. She is University Professor for High Performance Computing Systems in the Institute of Information Systems Engineering of TU Wien.

Education and career

Brandić was born in

Gradačac Gradačac () is a city located in the Tuzla Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated in the northeastern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, roughly south of the Sava river. As of 2013, ...

, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then part of

Yugoslavia , common_name = Yugoslavia , life_span = 1918–19921941–1945: World War II in Yugoslavia#Axis invasion and dismemberment of Yugoslavia, Axis occupation , p1 = Kingdom of SerbiaSerbia , flag_p ...

. She came to Austria as a secondary school student in 1992, not knowing any German, as a refugee from the

Bosnian War The Bosnian War ( / Рат у Босни и Херцеговини) was an international armed conflict that took place in Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995. Following several earlier violent incid ...

. She earned a master's degree in business computer science in 2002 from the

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, and a doctorate in the same subject in 2007 from TU Wien. She completed her

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in applied computer science at TU Wien in 2013. She was an untenured assistant professor in the Institute for Scientific Computing at the University of Vienna from 2002 to 2007, and in the faculty for informatics of TU Wien from 2007 to 2014, with a year on leave as a postdoctoral researcher at the

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in 2008. In 2014 she obtained a tenure track position at TU Wien.

Recognition

Brandić was the 2011 winner of the MiA award in science and research, an Austrian award for distinguished contributions by people with international backgrounds. She won the Start-Preis of the Austrian Science Fund in 2015. In 2016 she joined the Young Academy of the

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Selected publications

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