11–17 Jun 2023
MedILS, Split, Croatia
Europe/Zagreb timezone

Organisers

 

Alberto Pace | CERN

Director

Alberto Pace is a member of the IT department at CERN where he leads the Compute and Devices group. The group provides, operates, and maintains the scientific computing services and infrastructure needed by the laboratory and its experiments to accomplish their mission. The group manages end-users desktop and mobile devices and supports the needed operating systems as well as deploys and configure core productivity applications and software licenses.

For several years, Alberto has led the Storage group ensuring a coherent development process for Physics Data management activities, strongly driven by operational and user needs. He also represents CERN in the Advisory Board of the Internet Society (isoc.org) and the World Wide Web Consortium (w3c.org).

He has more than 30 years experiences in computing services, infrastructure, software engineering, accelerator control and accelerator operation. He graduated in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in 1987, where he received the first prize among Electronic Engineering students of the North Italy section.

 

Kristina Gunne | CERN

Administrative Manager

Kristina is a member of the CERN IT Innovation section, and her main responsibility is the CERN openlab summer student programme and events organisation. Kristina joined the CSC team in the fall of 2022 in the role of Administrative Manager. Kristina studied Communication and Social Sciences at Lund University and since Kristina came to CERN in 1996, she has been involved in numerous outreach initiatives. Kristina was part of the Project Office of the EGEE EC project, dealing with over 90 partners around the world between 2004-2010.  In her spare time Kristina enjoys taking her e-bike for a ride in the mountains, travelling, cooking and spending time with friends and family.

Jarek Polok | CERN

Technical Manager

Jarek is member of CERN Computer Center Operations Team, working on Data Center Infrastructure Management system implementation.

He first joined CERN in 1994 as a summer student then returned as technical student then fellow and as a staff member.

Jarek has been working in the past on many projects including telephone callback system, mail server maintenance, LEP OPAL online experiment systems maintenance and user support, Network boot and installation service system, UNIX support, Drupal web content management system and Scientific Linux and CentOS development and support.

 

Toni Šćulac | Faculty of Science, University of Split - Croatia

Toni was born and lives in Split, Croatia where he works as an associate professor at the Faculty of Science, University of Split.

He started working for the CMS experiment at CERN in 2015 as a part of his PhD studies. In 2018, he successfully defended his PhD thesis at Ecole Polytechnique (Paris, France) and University of Zagreb (Croatia).

His main expertise are studies of electron identification and Higgs boson physics. In 2020, he became a convener of the group that studies Higgs boson decays to two Z bosons.

During his studies, Toni attended CSC in Madrid in 2017 and tCSC in Split in 2018. Since he became associate professor in 2019 he already mentored several Bachelors and Master’s thesis and already co-supervised a PhD thesis. While continuing to develop as a scientist his main passion is mentoring students.