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Lecturer Biographies
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Bertrand Bellenot |
CERN |
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Primary
working in Aluminum industry as process engineer, developing
software for data acquisition, data analysis, statistical process
control (SPC) and for X-Ray spectrometry. Involved in ROOT
development since 2001 by porting ROOT to Windows. Member of
the ROOT development team at CERN since 2005, actually working on
GUI (Graphical User Interface), Windows support, integration of ROOT
in other toolkits (i.e. MFC, Qt, Fox, PVSS)
and Proof (Parallel Root Facility).
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François Flückiger |
CERN |
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François
Flückiger, Director of the CERN School of Computing, is Technology Liaison
Officer for Information Technologies at CERN and Manager of the CERN
openlab for DataGrid applications. 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 has 36 years of experience in networking and
information technologies. François Flückiger graduated from the Ecole
Supérieure d'Electricité in 1973 and holds an MBA from the Enterprise
Administration Institute in Paris in 1977. |
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Rudi Frühwirth |
HEPHY |
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Rudi Frühwirth studied mathematics in Vienna. In 1977
he joined the Institute of High Energy Physics in Vienna, where has been
working ever since. He has developed online software, simulation software,
pattern recognition software, and track and vertex reconstruction software
for various experiments. He has taught mathematics and statistics at the
University of Economics and regularly gives courses on data analysis at the
University of Technology in Vienna. |
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Bob
Jacobsen |
University of California at Berkeley
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Bob
Jacobsen is an experimental high-energy physicist and a faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley.
He's a member of the BaBar collaboration, where he lead the effort to create the
reconstruction software and the offline system.
He has previously been a member of the ALEPH (LEP) and MarkII (SLC)
collaborations. His original academic training was in computer engineering,
and he worked in the computing industry before becoming a physicist. |
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Sverre Jarp |
CERN |
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Sverre
Jarp is active in the CERN openlab, a joint collaboration with leading
industrial partners in order to assess cutting-edge information technology
for the Large Hadron Collider’s Computing Grid.
He has been working in computing at
CERN for well over 30 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 in HP Labs (Palo
Alto, USA).
Inside openlab, his main focus is currently compilers and platform
optimization as well as virtualization and Grid middleware. S.
Jarp holds a degree in Theoretical Physics from the
Norwegian
University of Science and Technology
in Trondheim.
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Erwin
Laure |
CERN |
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Dr. Erwin Laure is the
Technical Director of the EU-funded Enabling Grids for E-Science (EGEE)
project. He has been involved in Grid training for over four years and
contributed to previous Grid summer schools as lecturer and program
committee member. Prior to his appointment as Technical Director he was
co-leading the middleware re-engineering activity of EGEE and was also
the Technical Coordinator of the EU Data Grid (EDG) project. He holds a
PhD in computer science and business administration from the University
of Vienna, Austria and is active in research on parallel and distributed
systems for over 10 years.
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Martin Liendl |
EPO |
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Martin Liendl works as an Examiner
in the area of Computers at the European Patent Office (EPO) in
Munich (Germany). Before joining EPO, Martin was working several
years as project co-ordinator and software designer and developer in
international organisations and companies in the fields of
telecommunication (Siemens), high energy physics (CERN), and in the
financial sector (SWX Swiss Stock Exchange). He holds a PhD in
Computer Science (2003) from Vienna University of Technology, where
he graduated in Physics (1996).
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Lopienski |
CERN |
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Sebastian Lopienski works at CERN in the IT Department, designing and
developing software to facilitate managing and supporting computing services
hosted in the CERN Computer Centre. He is also a member of the CERN Computer
Security Team, where his duties include incident analysis and response.
During his work at CERN since 2001, he has had various assignments,
including development of applications for accelerator controls in Java, and
providing Central CVS Service for software projects at CERN. He graduated
from the Computer Science Faculty of Warsaw University in 2002 (Master's
thesis on Distributed Computing in Java). His professional interests include
software and network security, cryptography, and distributed systems.
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Axel Naumann |
CERN |
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Starting off as a physicist, Axel studied physics and math at
Muenster, Germany. In 2000, he got a PhD position for high energy
physics at Nijmegen, The Netherlands. They sent him to Fermilab at
Chicago, where he worked with the D0 experiment - which also meant
writing software from PCI drivers to data analysis code. During that
time he got involved with ROOT, slowly converting from a user to a
developer. He contributed to whatever he needed, e.g. the statistics
part, the documentation engine, and porting it to cygwin. After a
position with the Fermilab Computing Division in 2005 he ended up at
CERN in the ROOT development team. He is now responsible for the
reflection system, the interpreter CINT, and the documentation
system.
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Andrzej Nowak |
CERN |
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Andrzej Nowak has been working at CERN openlab, a
partnership between CERN and the industry (Intel, HP, Oracle), since 2007.
His early research concerned operating systems security, mobile systems
security, and wireless technologies. During his studies in 2005 and 2006,
Andrzej worked at Intel, where he researched custom performance
optimizations of the Linux kernel and took part in developing one of the
first 802.16e (WiMax Mobile) wireless MAN networking standard
implementations. Soon after obtaining his diploma, he joined openlab in
January 2007. Andrzej deals mostly with multi- and many-core architectures
and parallel processing. Another significant area of his work is platform
optimization and performance assessment.
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Alberto Pace |
CERN |
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Alberto Pace is a member if the IT department
at CERN where he leads 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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Heinz Stockinger |
Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne Switzerland |
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Heinz Stockinger has been working in Grid projects in Europe
(European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN) and in the U.S. (Stanford
Linear Accelerator Center, SLAC) for many years and in various functions.
Within the European DataGrid project (EDG) he was the Education and Outreach
Manager as well as responsible for replication software in the Data
Management workpackage.
Heinz is currently affiliated with the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
(Lausanne, Switzerland) where he works for the Embrace Grid project. He has
been appointed associate professor (Privatdozent) at the University of
Vienna (Faculty of Computer Science), where he was leading of the Research
Lab for Computational Technologies and Applications in 2005. Currently, he
also has a teaching appointment with the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology (EPFL, Lausanne). Heinz holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science
and Business Administration from the University of Vienna, Austria.
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Assistant to Lecturer
Biographies
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Aatos Heikkinen |
HIP Helsinki |
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Aatos Heikkinen is an experimental
high-energy physicist at the Helsinki Institute of Physics.
He has graduated in Computational Physics from the University of
Helsinki. He is a member of the
Compact Muon Solenoid collaboration, where he has developed software for
detector simulation, and multivariate data analysis using neural networks.
Aatos is a member of the Geant4 collaboration, where he has
specialized to modeling of intra-nuclear cascades, and acted as a Geant4
Hadronic Physics Group coordinator.
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Last edited:
04-Feb-08
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