CMS Virtual Guides
Nikos Tsipinakis
Nikos is a computer engineer working at CMS. He studied Computer Science at the Harokopio University of Athens. He is interested in large scale distributed systems and contributes multiple open-source projects. He started working for the IT department at CERN in 2021 and worked on implementing a secure container-based architecture for CERN's interactive login service (LxPlus). In 2022 he started working for the CMS experiment as a distributed computing infrastructure engineer where he manages and develops the CMS Global computing pool.
Andromachi Tsirou
Andromachi has graduated in Physics from the University of Athens, Greece. She got her Ph.D in Physics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA and has been working at CERN since 1989 starting with the DELPHI LEP detector and then continuing with the CMS detector. She is a mostly hardware detector physicist and she is especially interested in environmental sensors and ditributed sensor systems.
Technical Support
Noemi Beni
Zoltan Szillasi
Zoltan and Noemi, physicists, PhD in particle physics
During the last 20 years, they have been working for Hardware Muon Barrel Alignment System and Fiber Optical Sensing System at CMS
Their big hobby has been the CMS Virtual visits since the beginning.