Dr. Niels Aage is an Associate Professor of solid mechanics at the Technical University of Denmark. His research interest lies in the areas of development of new methods for structural optimization, efficient numerical methods for giga scale optimization, multiphysic design optimization and educational tools for structural optimization. Prof. Aage has authored more than 25 papers in ISI indexed journals, including two “highly cited in field” and one “hot paper in field”. He has been invited speaker and key note lecturer at multiple scientific conferences and has received prices for his pionering work on giga-scale computational morphogenesis published in Nature. Furthermore, he has developed specialized structural optimization open-source codes tailored for use on HPC systems (see www.topopt.dtu.dk).