name: Christoph Spiel email: cspiel@hammersmith-consulting.com url: privateEmail: tag: updated: Chris runs an Open Source Software consulting company in Upper Bavaria, Germany. Despite being trained as a physicist -- he holds a PhD in physics from Munich University of Technology -- his main interests revolve around numerics, heterogenous programming environments, and software engineering. He can be reached at cspiel@hammersmith-consulting.com.