Tim Jammer studied computer science at the university of Hamburg. During his studies he also worked as a student assistant at the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ), inter alia, teaching courses for MPI and OpenMP to geology students. His master thesis covered the automatic translation of OpenMP to MPI in order to scale up OpenMP programs to large distributed memory systems. After graduating with a Master of Science in Hamburg, he joined the HKHLR in 2019.