Ildefons Magrans de Abril

openlab technical personnel, funded by partner SIEMENS 02.2009 - 12.2009

Bio as of his openlab time

Ildefons Magrans de Abril studied at University Autonomous of Barcelona where he obtained a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science (1998), a M.Sc. degree in Electronic Engineering (2001) and a PhD in Electronic Engineering (2008). He started his professional career In October 2000, in the Synchrotron Laboratory of Barcelona, implementing a data acquisition system for a multi-wire proportional counter. Since august 2002 he has been working in the CMS experiment at CERN, in the context of the Trigger and Data Acquisition Project. Since August 2004 until January 2009, he was coordinating the design and development of the control and monitoring system of CMS Level-1 Trigger. Ildefons was the main responsible of the conceptual design, development and sub-systems integration coordination. His technical contribution to the CMS experiment was acknowledged by the CMS Collaboration with an exceptional PhD thesis award, which the CMS Thesis Award Committee granted for the first time to an engineer.