Professor Niels Aage is one of the top researchers in the field of ultra-large scale finite element methods and structural optimization approaches. He is a member of the DTU TopOpt group, one of the world leading groups within development and applications of topology optimization methods. Niels Aage is an expert on the use of high-performance computing for design optimization of multiphysics problems incl. electromagnetics, thermofluidics, vibroacoustics and multiscale mechanics. Niels Aage is elected vice-president of the International Society for Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization and has received several prices for his pioneering work on giga-scale computational morphogenesis.