Description
PIC: The Port d'Informació Científica (PIC, the Scientific Information Harbor) is a high throughput scientific data processing center located on the campus of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB, Catalonia, Spain). PIC is a first level (Tier-1) data center for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) experiments at CERN (the European Particle Physics Lab near Geneva, Switzerland) and the main data center of the MAGIC Telescopes and the PAUcam camera, both located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in La Palma, Canary Islands. PIC is one of the Scientific Data Centers of the Science Ground Segment of the Euclid mission of the European Space Agency. PIC also gives support to other research projects in particle physics, astrophysics, observational cosmology and other fields. PIC is maintained through a collaboration agreement between the Institut de Física d'Altes Energies (IFAE) and the Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT).
Professor Flix graduated in Physics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 1998. He joined IFAE and did his Diploma Thesis in ATLAS, by testing and verifying the uniformity and quality of the Hadronic Calorimeter EndCap modules built by IFAE. In 2006, he obtained the PhD. Thesis in Experimental High Energy Physics studying the viability of MAGIC to search for Dark Matter annihilation gamma-ray signals and the analysis of data taken in the Galactic Center direction with the MAGIC Telescope.
He joined PIC in 2006 as a post-doctoral fellow in the LHC Group acting as the CMS contact person. He implemented the “Site Readiness”, a crucial tool for CMS Computing Operations, and was promoted to coordinate the whole CMS Computing Operations, in the period 2009-2012. By mid-2012, he joined the PIC Projects Group coordinating the operations of Cosmology & Astrophysics projects. Back to LHC, since beggining of 2013, he has responsibility as Principal Investigator in the project funded by the Spanish government to deploy/operate the Spanish Tier-1 for the LHC. He is associate Professor at UAB and also linked to CIEMAT.
