Luiz Felipe Aguinsky was born in 1990 in Porto Alegre, Brazil. He received his Bachelor's degree in Physics from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (BSc, 2013). Subsequently, he studied Simulation Sciences at RWTH Aachen University (MSc, 2018), having written the Master's thesis at the German Aerospace Center. After finishing his studies he joined the Institute for Microelectronics in March 2018, where he is currently working on his doctoral degree. He is researching high performance numerical approaches for Technology CAD within the scope of the Christian Doppler Laboratory for High Performance TCAD.