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, events organisation and general office management. Since Kristina came to CERN in 1996, she has been involved in many outreach initiatives at CERN and in her home country Sweden. Previously, Kristina was part of the Project Office of the EGEE EC project with over 90 partners around the world. Kristina joined the CSC team in the fall of 2022 in the role of Administrative Manager. In her spare time Kristina enjoys taking her e-bike for a ride in the mountains, traveling, cooking and spending time with friends and family.
Andrzej Nowicki | CERN
Technical Manager
Andrzej is a member of the CERN Database Team, specialising in Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL databases. With a passion for solving technical challenges and a commitment to sharing his knowledge of database systems, he makes valuable contributions to the team's objectives. Andrzej began his journey with CERN in 2020 and recently joined the CSC team in 2023. Prior to joining CERN, he gained experience working with various companies, where he actively contributed to numerous IT projects as a database administrator. He holds a MEng from Poznan University of Technology. Outside of his professional pursuits, Andrzej finds joy in exploring the world around him. He nurtures his adventurous spirit by travelling, hiking and skiing.
Andjelina Petrovic | Comtrade
Local Organiser
Andjelina Petrovic is the Director of Corporate Communications at Comtrade, a global technology company based in Belgrade, currently comprising 50 companies worldwide and thousands of employees, primarily software engineers. Since 2015, Comtrade has been a member of CERN openlab, contributing to a project on development of the CERN data storage system. Fostering global collaboration, Andjelina will be representing Comtrade in the organising team for the CERN School of Computing 2024 in Belgrade.
Throughout her career, she has worked with Forbes Magazine, The Times, The Sunday Times, and The Economist and published multiple articles in academic and professional business publications, promoting the impact technology has on a global society. In addition to her corporate responsibilities, Andjelina is also an active academic, holding a master’s degree in management and strategic communication and pursuing a PhD at the University of Belgrade, where she explores the impact of technology on management theory and practice in the global economy.
