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Welcome to my place on the web!
Since April 2002 I work at CERN, just outside Geneva in
Switzerland. As a fellow in the
Silicon Pixel
Detector group in the
ALICE experiment I mainly worked with beam test software
development in C++. After the contract ended in 2005, I worked with
parallel computing in the
ROOT/PROOF team for a few months. In May 2006, I joined the
ATLAS experiment
PANDA
team to work with distributed analysis, hired by
University of Texas at Arlington
as a Research Engineering Scientist Associate (level 2).
I finished my Ph.D. in 2001 in Ultra-Relativistic Heavy-Ion
physics, at the Division of
Cosmic and Subatomic Physics,
Lund University, Sweden. The thesis topic was particle
production in the WA98
and PHENIX
experiments. After the dissertation, I traveled around the world
for several months before arriving in Geneva.
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I currently work with software
development in the US led
PANDA
team.
PANDA
is a job management system associated with the US
Open Science
Grid (OSG) and is specifically designed for distributed
analysis and production. The distributed analysis system aims to
bring computing power on a global scale to thousands of
scientists by offering them access to vast computing
resources for their analyses while shielding
them from the complexities of the grid environments.
My physics interests are related to
particle physics;
Supersymmetry and
Higgs,
Large Extra Dimensions,
miniature Black Holes and
Gravitation. It is my aim to do physics research in these
fields when the Large
Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN
comes online.
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 In
my spare time I enjoy the surrounding mountains (Juras and
Alps), either by climbing or hiking them. Other sport
activities I like include swimming, diving (preferably in the
tropics, I hold an Advanced PADI Open Water license), biking and
running.
I've played the guitar for more than 20 years and I listen to
a lot of music. At CERN we used to have a rock band called
Moonsoup with original material. Watching movies
is another great interest of mine, and so is short story and
poetry writing. On my vacations I love going to exotic
destinations such as remote islands in the South Pacific, hiking
in New Zealand or walking the streets of New York City. The last
few trips went to Colombia, Jamaica, England, Sri Lanka,
Maldives and the
USA. Some pictures can be found in the
gallery page.After the
2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, I helped start a relief project
in Sri Lanka together with my wife, and with the help of many
friends in Sweden, France and Switzerland, which is still run by
AIESEC Sri
Lanka. These are the reports so far:
January 2005,
October 2005.
Every now
and then I update my
blog with the latest news from the western front..Neptono
Last updated:
Tuesday, September 16, 2008 10:45:42 AM |
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