Dirk Reith studied physics and mathematics at the Johannes-Gutenberg University (JGU) Mainz, Germany, and has received research scholarships in Uppsala, Sweden, and in Canberra, Australia. He earned both his diploma in 1998 and his Ph.D. in 2001 from the JGU, while being employed by the Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P). After four years in the automobile industry (DaimlerChrysler AG, Stuttgart), he joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing, Sankt Augustin, in 2006. Since 2012, Reith has held a professorship for modelling and simulation at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences (H-BRS). Since 2014, he has been one of the founding directors of H-BRS’s Institute for Technology, Resource and Energy-efficient Engineering (TREE). Reith's research focuses on computational chemistry (molecular modelling) and computational fluid dynamics. He is also passionate about teaching and mentoring, especially in his role as faculty advisor of the “BRS Motorsport” team (Formula Student Electric Class). Dirk Reith won H-BRS’s innovation award in 2014 and a teaching award also from them in 2020. So far, he has co-authored 100+ peer-reviewed papers, both on research and university didactics.