Short biography of people currently involved in CERN openlab
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Zbigniew Baranowski
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openlab technical personnel, funded by partner
Oracle |
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Since 2003 I was
studying information technology at Faculty of Electronics
and Information Technology, Warsaw University of Technology.
In 2006 I did one year break joining CERN as a technical
student in IT-PSS group. During my stay I developed Streams
Monitor tool which provided dashboard for all experiments to
the distributed database environment. In February 2008 I
obtained bachelor degree of software engineering. I have
designed system of load-balancing cluster with web
interface. In June 2009 I defended my master thesis
concerning formal verification of concurrent systems.
Afterwards I came back to CERN to the same group as an
openlab fellow sponsored by Oracle. Now I am starting to
work on Oracle 11g testing concerning streams replication. |
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Renaud Barillere
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Staff |
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Renaud Barillre
has been working at CERN since 1989 for the control of the
CERN experiments. He is currently leading a team responsible
for the design, development and procurement of the control
for all the gas systems of the LHC experiments. He is the
section leader of the Industrial Controls and Electronics
Group
in EN
Department
which provides support to the users of the CERN
experiments in the domain of field buses, Programmable Logic
controllers, OPC, middleware protocols (DIP, DIM) and
National Instrument components. He graduated as engineer
from the Ecole Suprieure d'Electricit
(SUPELEC) in 1989
with a specialization in Artificial Intelligence. |
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Marcin
Bogusz |
openlab technical personnel, funded by partner Siemens |
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Marcin studied software engineering at the Faculty of Electronics and
Information Technology at the Warsaw University of Technology. In 2006, he
joined CERN PH-CMG group as a technical student to work on online-offline
conditions data replication software for the CMS detector. He was also
working on optimization of the Oracle streams performance for large
transactions as a part of his CERN assignment. Marcin defended his M.Sc.
thesis on implementing cryptographic algorithms on graphics accelerators in
2008. After graduation, he decided to pursue his IT career as a web
applications designer and developer at Hewlett-Packard. He has been working
on designing large workflow web-based systems for major international
companies and the Polish Government. He returned to CERN as a Fellow in
September 2010 to work on the Oracle archiving module for the future SCADA
system from Siemens. Marcin is an Oracle Database 10g Certified Professional
and Oracle Certified Java Programmer. |
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Tony Cass |
Group Leader, Database Services |
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Tony Cass joined CERN's Information Technology Department in 1987 after
completing a PhD in Particle Physics at the University of Liverpool. After
initial assignments in the CERN Program Library and working with CERN’s
IBM/VMCMS service, Tony played a leading role in the development of
workstation based interactive computing, had major responsibilities in the
operation and management of large scale batch processing and data storage
systems and was responsible for the refurbishment of the 30-year old
computer centre to meet the needs of LHC computing. Tony currently oversees
the various database services at CERN, a remit ranging from corporate
databases, through databases central to the operation of LHC, the world’s
highest energy particle collider, to databases supporting the work of the
LHC physics experiments. |
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Sebastien
Ceuterickx |
Staff |
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Sebastien Ceuterickx studied micro-wave telecommunication systems and
networks in the French telecommunication engineer school Telecom Lille-1
where he obtained a M.Sc. degree in telecommunication Engineering. He has
been working as a networks engineer in the Communication Systems group since
2006. Currently responsible for the design, development, deployment and
third level support of the Wireless network at CERN, he is also the
technical manager of HP/openlab WIND project. |
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Francois Fluckiger
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openlab Manager |
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Francois
Fluckiger,
Manager of the CERN
openlab, is the Knowledge and Technology Transfer Officer
for Information Technologies department at CERN and Director
of the CERN Schools of Computing. Before joining CERN in
1978, he was employed for five years by SESA in Paris. At
CERN, he has been in charge of external networking for more
than 12 years and held positions in infrastructure and
application networking, including the management of CERN's
World-Wide Web team after the departure of the Web inventor
Tim Berners-Lee. He is an adviser to the European
Commission, a member of the Internet Society Advisory
Council and the author of the reference textbook
"Understanding Networked Multimedia" as well as more than 80
articles. He is also a Computer Sciences lecturer at the
University of Geneva. He has more than 35 years of
experience in networking and information technologies.
Francois Fluckiger holds an MSc in Physics from the Paris IV
University. He graduated from the Ecole Suprieure
d'Electricit in 1973 and was awarded an MBA by the
Enterprise Administration Institute in Paris in 1977.
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Carlos Garcia Fernandez
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openlab technical personnel, funded by partner Oracle |
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Carlos Garcia Fernandez studied Computer
Science Engineering at the EPSIG (2007), University of
Oviedo (Spain). He also holds the degree in Computer Science
Technical Engineering in Management (2005). For achieving
these degrees he had to develop two different thesis. The
first one was done in collaboration with a primary school,
developing a system that was able to manage the most
important operations for them (public information, teachers
and pupils management, material, registrations, marks...).
The second one was developed with a private enterprise,
developing the system 'ACGETool' which was able to generate
automatically all the layers of management web applications,
including the database connections, internal layers, until
the user basic interface. After finishing his degree, he
started at CERN as a PJAS in collaboration with the
University of Oviedo, joining the group IT-DES to develop
System Administration task. In January 2009 he joined the
openlab as Oracle Fellow. |
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Eric Grancher
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Staff |
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Eric Grancher has been working at CERN
since 1996 in the Information Technology Division. He has
been working on different aspects of databases and
application server products: database design consulting,
cluster database administration and usage with commodity
hardware, application server consulting, database and
application server monitoring. He is currently responsible
for a team that focuses on database oriented application
deployment. He holds an engineer diploma from the French
telecommunication engineer school "ENST - Telecom Paris"
and a Magistre (Master) of Parallel Computing from "Ecole
Normale Suprieure de Lyon". |
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Manuel Guijarro
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Staff |
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Manuel Guijarro has been working at CERN
since 1990 in the Information Technology Division. He is a
System Analyst specialised on Distributed and High
Availability Systems with wide experience on both commercial
and Open Source based platforms. He has been main architect
for a lot of Computing Infrastructure for Mechanical
Engineering (PARC, CAD/CAM, EDMS, etc) and Software
Development (CVS, SVN, TWiki, etc). Currently, he is
responsible for Oracle Enterprise Manager service and IT/DES
Monitoring Services Working group. He holds a degree on
Computing Science and a Magister (Master)on Computer
Architecture by the Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona.
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Frederic Hemmer
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Head IT Department |
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Frederic Hemmer studied Electrical and
Mechanical Engineering (and Computing) in Brussels. He
joined CERN in 1984 where he served as Systems Engineer in
Databases, Real-Time Systems and more generally Distributed
Computing. In the 1990s he became the software architect of
the ComputerWorld Honors awarded CERN SHIFT project aiming
at moving High-Energy Physics applications from Mainframes
to Distributed RISC/Unix systems, later migrated to PC/Linux
systems. He has been the initial author of the RFIO remote
file access protocol, still in use today. From 1994 he took
the responsibility of operating the Physics Data Processing
Services at CERN (100s of machines, Terabytess of data,
Gigabit/second interconnections). As of 1998 he took
responsibility of CERN Windows service (> 5000 computers)
and later Mail and Web Services. In 2004 he joined the EGEE
(Enabling Grid for E-sciencE) project where he served as
Middleware Reengineering Manager (coordinating Grid
Middleware development of 80 people across 8 countries). In
2005 he was appointed as CERN Deputy IT Department Head (230
Staff, 150 visitors, 40 MCHF budget in 2006), He served as
EGEE related projects (EELA, SEE-GRID, EUMEDGRID,
EUCHINAGRID, DILIGENT, ICEAGE, ETICS, Health-e-Child, etc)
Management Boards formal representative of CERN and holds
the same role for the current EGEE-III related projects (BalticGrid-2,
D4Science, ETICS-2, GridTalk, SEEGRID-SCI). He acts as a
deputy to the CERN representative of the EGEE and EGI_DS
PMBs. He has been appointed as CERN IT Department Head for
the period 2009-2013. He is a member of IEEE and ACM |
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Morag
Hickman |
openlab junior communications officer |
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Morag Hickman graduated from Warwick University with a bachelor's in
physics, and worked in research publishing including traditional engineering
and open-access physics research journals for several years before
undertaking an MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College London.
She joins the team as an administrative intern for a year, and will be
working as junior communications officer, including such projects as web
design. |
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Milosz Hulboj
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openlab technical personnel, funded by
partner HP ProCurve |
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Milosz Hulboj studied at Warsaw
University of Technology. He did his B.Sc. degree in the
area of Telecommunication and was then involved in ALICE
Detector Construction Database project. Later on he was a
Technical Student at CERN in IT-CO-BE section, where he was
developing PVSS SCADA applications for controlling the
cooling and ventilation and was involved in initial PVSS
Oracle performance testing. For his M.Sc. thesis he analysed
the performance issues related with Explicit Model
Predictive Control and Multiparametric Optimisation. After
finish his studies he was working for the Statconsulting
company, where he was developing software for data mining,
statistical analysis and text mining. In July 2007 he
re-joined CERN openlab as a Fellow working in the HP
ProCurve networking project. Milosz's current fields of
interest include network security, data mining and
statistical analysis. |
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Sverre Jarp
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openlab Chief Technology Officer |
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Sverre Jarp
has been working in computing
at CERN for over 35 years and has held various managerial
and technical positions promoting advanced but
cost-effective computing solutions for the Laboratory. In
2001-02 he spent a sabbatical year at HP Labs (Palo Alto,
USA). Upon his return, he started working as the Chief
Technology Officer in the CERN openlab. His current fields
of interest are, in particular, multi-threaded programming
and performance tuning, but he tries hard to keep involved
in all the technical activities in openlab. Sverre holds a
degree in Theoretical Physics from the Norwegian University
of Science and Technology in Trondheim.
Personal
homepage. |
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Bob Jones |
Head, CERN openlab |
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Bob Jones is the Head of CERN openlab, as well as a member of the IT
department head office with responsibilities in EC co-funded projects.
Following a B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science from Staffordshire University,
Bob joined CERN in 1986 as a software developer with the information
technology department providing support for the physics experiments running
on the Large Electron Positron (LEP) particle accelerator. He completed his
PhD thesis in Computer Science at Sunderland University while working at
CERN. He has been involved in several research projects for the Large Hadron
Collider (LHC) accelerator and has held the position of leader of the online
software system for the ATLAS experiment (http://www.atlas.ch/) at the LHC. |
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Jean-Michel
Jouanigot |
Group Leader, Communications Systems |
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Jean-Michel Jouanigot is the leader of the Communications Systems Group of
CERN IT Department, providing networking solutions for the CERN LAN, WAN and
High Performance Computing Infrastructures as well as fixed and mobile
telephony services. He has more than 15 years of experience in networking
technologies, infrastructure and software engineering. He graduated in
Advanced Networking from the Ecole Superieure d'Electricite in 1988
(France). |
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Ryszard Jurga
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openlab technical personnel, funded by partner
HP ProCurve |
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Ryszard
studied at University of Technology and Agriculture in
Bydgoszcz (Poland) where he obtained M.Sc degree in
Telecommunication and Electronics. After that, he started
his PhD studies in the field of telecommunication and
computing. He also worked at Electronic Firm SIMS in Poland
for more than two years as a programmer and a network
supervisor. His region of interests include linux
servers management, computer networks, wireless
communication and all issues connected with a computer
security and programming. |
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Omer Khalid
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openlab technical personnel, funded by partner Siemens |
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Omer Khalid
received his BSc Hons in Computer Science from the
University of Greenwich, London in 2005 and currently is a
doctorate candidate in Grid Deployment group in Information
Technology department at CERN, Geneva.
His research interests includes Virtualization, Grid, High
Performance Computing, Clouds, Scheduling and Batch Systems.
Presently I am exploring how batch systems such as Condor,
PBS etc could be virtualization enabled so that execution
nodes could be brought up on demand by the master node for
optimised resource allocations. He is also researching on
optimally scheduling Atlas jobs in virtual machine
containers deployed through PanDA pilot.
This involves number of issues to be addressed such as job
profile, work load, application domain, job execution foot
print. Security is another key issue.
In addition, he is a fellow in CERN openlab working on
Siemens collaboration project in the Engineering Department. |
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Vlad Lapadatescu
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openlab technical personnel, funded by partner
HP |
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Born in Romania, Vlad Lapadatescu chose to pursue his
studies at the National Institute for Applied Sciences
(INSA) in Lyon, France, where he completed a Bachelor in
Computing and Masters in Engineering in September 2009.
During his studies, he worked as an intern for Microsoft,
Schlumberger and WesternGeco. Vlad joined CERN openlab in
February 2010, as a Fellow sponsored by HP. He works on
wireless networks, with a strong focus on optimizing
large-scale Wi-Fi network deployments. |
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Alfio
Lazzaro |
openlab technical personnel |
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Alfio Lazzaro graduated in Particle Physics at the University of Milan, with
a thesis on measurement of CP violation in charmless B decays at BaBar
experiment at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Afterward he started his
PhD in Physics at University of Milan, working at the BaBar experiment,
where he did several measurements on charmless B meson decays. He defended
his thesis on January 12th, 2007. During this period he developed a data
analysis program to perform such analyses, based on the ROOT framework.
After his PhD, he had an "Assegno di Ricerca" (Italian PostDoc) at the
University of Milan, with activity on the Babar experiment and the Atlas
experiment at CERN. For the latter he spent 2008 and 2009 working on a
development of a software tool for track resolution measurements. Since the
beginning of his PhD he started a project of optimization and
parallelization of data analysis software, collaborating with HPC Cineca
group at Bologna and the ROOT team. In particular he is collaborating on the
development of the RooFit and RooStats data analysis packages, which are
part of ROOT framework. In 2010, he joined CERN openlab with a COFUND-CERN and Marie Curie fellowship. Within
openlab, he is
working on the optimization and parallelization of software used in High
Energy Physics community for many-cores systems, in collaboration with Intel. |
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Julien Leduc
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openlab technical personnel, funded by
partner Intel |
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Julien Leduc graduated from
ENSIMAG with a master degree in Computer Science,
specialized in Distributed System. He then joined the INRIA
(www.inria.fr)
in Grenoble, to administrate local Clusters, develop cluster
middleware and partipate in the CLIC project in
collaboration with Mandriva and Bull. In 2004 he started the
development of middleware for fast GRID reconfiguration (kadeploy.imag.fr)
along with a GRID architecture prototype to prefigure a
nationwide grid platform. This prototype was implemented in
Grid'50000 (www.grid5000.fr)
and he had to move to Orsay to continue the development of
Grid'5000 and take care of GriDeXplorer (IDRIS). He joined
openlab in march 2009 as a fellow. |
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Melissa
Gaillard |
openlab Communications,
funded by partners |
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Melissa Gaillard is
the CERN openlab Communications Officer. Before joining
CERN in July 2008, she has been working as the Latin
America Marketing Manager and the International Division
Business Intelligence Manager with Renault Trucks and as
a Consultant and Project Manager with Frost & Sullivan,
focusing on technology communication and marketing
strategies. Melissa studied Marketing and Communication
at Celsa - Paris IV Sorbonne after an hypohkagne and
Khagne B/L.
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Andrzej Nowak |
openlab technical personnel |
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Andrzej Nowak is a staff researcher at CERN openlab - a collaboration of CERN and industrial partners HP, Intel, Oracle and Siemens. He holds a Master Engineer degree in Computer Science from the Gdansk University of Technology, specializing in distributed applications and internet systems. Andrzej's early research concerned operating systems security, mobile systems security, and wireless technologies. During his studies in 2005 and 2006, he worked at Intel, where he investigated custom performance optimizations of the Linux kernel and took part in developing one of the first implementations of the IEEE 802.16 "WiMax Mobile" standard. In January 2007, soon after obtaining his diploma, he joined openlab as a Marie Curie Fellow sponsored by the European Commission. Andrzej's current research is focused on performance tuning, parallelism and modern many-core processor architectures. Another significant area of his work is the teaching of these topics at courses both within and outside of CERN. |
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Alberto Pace |
Group Leader, Data and Storage Services |
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Alberto Pace is a member if the IT department
at CERN where he leads the Data and Storage Services group. In the past, he
led the Data Management group after having led the Internet Services group-providing Electronic
Mail, Central Web and Windows Desktops services for CERN. He has more than
15 years experience in computing services, infrastructure, software
engineering, accelerator control and accelerator operation. He graduated in
Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in 1987. |
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Daniel Rodrigues
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openlab technical personnel, funded by
partner SIEMENS |
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Daniel
Rodrigues graduated in 2004 at University of Porto, Portugal in Electrical
and Electronics Engineering. His final project was concluded at the European
Space Agency on Neural Networks for power consumption and thermal behaviour
predictions on spacecrafts. Coming to Cern afterwards as Portuguese trainee,
he started his work on grid gLite software components. After a one year
hiatus from research developing software at MFG.com, returned to Cern and
initiated is collaboration with openlab. During 18 months, worked as a
fellow with EDS on the Messaging System for the Grid (MSG), which is now
available for enhancing Grid Monitoring and Operations Automation on the
Grid. From 1st of March 2009, Daniel started collaborating as an openlab
Staff with ETM/Siemens. The aim of the project is to improve their SCADA
solution, PVSS, which is the solution adopted at Cern for supervising the
control systems used at LHC and associated experiments. |
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Filippo Tilaro
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openlab technical personnel, funded by partner SIEMENS |
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Filippo Tilaro
studied at Informatics and Telecommunications University of Catania (Italy)
where he obtained a M.Sc. degree in Informatics Engineering. Moreover, he
worked with a research group of his University to develop a new strategy
which allows to support fairness in a wireless mesh IEEE 802.11 network
environment. In 2008, After the University experiences, he worked as a
software developer in Microsoft (Avanade) where he had experience in IT
solutions based on Microsoft frameworks. In February 2009 he joined CERN
Openlab as a Fellow working in PLC security subjects. |
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Wolfgang von Rueden
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Former Head, CERN openlab |
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Wolfgang von
Rueden
studied physics at Mainz University before coming to CERN in
1975. He worked during the first part of his career on
real-time data acquisition systems. In 1990, he co-founded
IBEX Computing, and returned to CERN in 1992 where he
introduced industrial control systems for physics
experiments. From 1994 until 1998, he was Technical Director
at GSI, a German National Research Institute in Heavy Ion
Physics. After his return to CERN, he was in charge of the
Physics Data Processing Group in CERNs IT Department,
before becoming Head of the IT Department (2003-2008). He
has been leading CERN openlab, a joint venture between CERN and
leading IT companies, till May 2011. |
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