Alejandro ALVAREZ AYLLON

CERN, Geneva - Switzerland

The first time I arrived to CERN was as an Openlab Summer Student, in 2008. The next year I came back as a Technical Student, working for the former Grid Deployment group. I started doing testing of work elements at first, and storage later. After some time, I developed a framework to enable nightly builds and tests through ETICS, framework that is still at use and was presented at the 1^st EMI Technical Conference in Vilnius.  Finally, in November of 2010 I got the fellow position in the same group (now named Grid Technology), and started moving from testing to more development duties, although I am still maintaining the testing framework.

Simone AMOROSO

Physikalisches Institut, Universität Freiburg - Germany

After working in the CDF experiment during my master thesis I have started this year a PhD in Freiburg, working in the ATLAS SUSY group. I am currently involved in developing a general search strategy for new physics, looking at deviations from SM predictions in all possible event topologies, to minimize the chance of missing new phenomena. I am also taking part in an upgrade of the muon DCS. My preferred OS is a Debian Linux, but if obliged I not disdain working on Windows. I have extensive experience with C/C++ and the ROOT framework, and some knowledge of python, LabView and VHDL.

Darren DEMICOLI

University of Malta, Msida  - Malta

Last year I finished my BSc in Computer Science and AI at the University of Malta. My main research area was reliable programming of decentralized distributed systems. Currently I work as a Linux/Unix system administrator and database administrator. My main responsibilities include deployment, configuration and management of servers (mainly RHEL4-6), as well as IBM Informix database administration which includes performing schema changes, configuration tuning, database backups/restores, replication and database storage maintenance. I also get a reasonable firsthand experience with server virtualization and various storage technologies including storage libraries and SAN’s. My future plans include furthering my studies in computational science and performing research in a scientific computing domain.

Andrea MATTERA

Uppsala University - Sweden

Last year (10/2010) I took my MSc in Physics at the University of Insubria (Italy), with a specialization in Medical Physics and a thesis dealing with Boron Neutron Capture Therapy applications.  I am now pursuing a PhD in Applied Nuclear Physics at Uppsala University (Sweden). I will work in the measurement of neutron-induced fission yields of several actinides and at different neutron energies, to provide information to be used in future Gen-IV power plants or for the handling of Spent Nuclear Fuel.  I am currently developing an analysis tool to perform the analysis of the data that will soon be collected at the IGISOL-JYFLTRAP facility in Jyväskylä (Finland).

Pablo PERA MIRA

CERN, Geneva - Switzerland

I am a software engineer working for the controls group at CERN. We develop the software that the operators in the Control Center use to operate the accelerator complex. Before coming to CERN, I spent some time doing research multi-espectral image analysis in the Technical University of Valencia, Spain, and also worked for Google, in Zurich, in the Google Base team. I happened to be there when they launched Android, and I've been developing (and launching) Android applications since then. I had already explored a bit the mobile development world via Java ME on MIDP while I was studying in the KTH, Stockholm, where I stayed for a year. I am originally from Spain, and looking forward to make the best out of CSC.

David MARTIN CLAVO

CERN, Geneva - Switzerland

I am a software / web engineer currently working in the CERN Service Management Team as a Fellow in GS-SMS. My work consists mostly in technical aspects related to the Service-Now system at CERN. I am the main developer of the CERN Service Portal ( http://cern.ch/service-portal ). I am also involved in the Drupal "movement" at CERN (ENTICE), having developed http://services.web.cern.ch . Previously, I worked two years in the Indico team, where I integrated Indico with several collaboration tools (EVO, Vidyo...).  Before that, I worked one year in NTT Data (Japan), contributing to the ActiveMQ Apache project.  Given all of the above, my technical knowledge covers: HTML/CSS/Javascript, Python, Java, PHP, relational and object databases. My current interests are website design / usability, search engines, application performance, and security. I hope to learn more about some of these topics in the CSC.

Will ROGERS

STFC, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot – United Kingdom

I did an MSci in physics at Cambridge before taking a year to travel.  I then started work at STFC near Oxford in the e-Science department.  I am currently working on two projects. One is APEL, the grid accounting system used by EGEE and EGI. I am working on developing a new version of the system in Python.  The second involves collecting data from scientific experiments including ISIS, a particle accelerator. My project is to collect data from different sources including Microsoft Sharepoint and Oracle databases, and prepare the storage database for the experimental data. I have got two years' experience programming in Java and Python on Linux and I am currently gaining experience programming C# in a Windows environment.  I also like playing many different sports and doing puzzles.