Josep Flix

Pepe was born in Terrassa (Barcelona) in 1975. He 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. This work was published in Phys.Rev.Lett. and Astrophys.J., both papers Topcited 100+.

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.