was born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1956. He studied Applied Mathematics, Engineering and Physics in the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, and obtained his PhD (1985) in high-energy Physics working in the Linear Accelerator Center project of the University of Stanford, California, USA.
His stay as researcher in United States, fixed that the computing for accelerator experiments was to become a theme of his life's work. It includes some work at Fermilab and led to his first job as a post-doctoral research fellow. His work included developing a gas calorimeter for the Mac detector at the Stanford Linear Accelerator.
In 1987 he moved to Barcelona to set up a research group in the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona mainly concentrated on the detectors at CERN (the European Laboratory for Particle Physics) and the massive computing issues of handling the data generated by them.
Subsequently, he was Assistant Professor, Associated Professor and finally full Professor at UAB (1995).
During 1999 and 2002 he moved to Geneva to lead the IT Division of the CERN.
In 2003 he returned to Barcelona and was nominated Director of the Port d'Informació Científica (PIC).
was born in Maracaivo (Venezuela) in 1968. Computer Engineer since 1995 by the Rafael Urdaneta University in Venezuela, she also holds a Master in Business Administration (2001) by the same institution. She initially developed a professional career in Venezuela as User’s Support, Trainer, Project Manager, Data Control Coordinator and Computer Information System Coordinator in Telecommunications, Oil Services and Computing Consultancy institutions.
Present in the Port d’Informació Científica (PIC) since its foundation in 2003, Mari Carmen is currently responsible of the administration global support, human ressources, accounting and purchasing services. She also leads the EGEE Federation Administrative Office (South-west Federation) to coordinate the administrative tasks on ES-GRID for EGEE III (Grid_Services FP7 European Project).
was born in Barcelona (Spain) in 1963. In 1982 she started her Law studies at the University College “Abad Oliba” and achieved her degree in 1989 at the University Barcelona. She specialized her law career in commercial law and focused it to SMEs. After about 10 years she changed her “view of life” and decided to change her “way of life”. She achieved her diplomas in ACV and ATV (=Veterinary nurse), but could not fulfill her dream to practice her new job. Due she also speaks fluently Spanish, German, English and Catalan she carried out managing secretary and PPRR jobs. She joined the PIC in May 2010 fulfilling secretary tasks for the Director Prof. Manuel Delfino.
