Kunszt Peter

PETER KUNSZT has a PhD in theoretical physics (Lattice QCD) from the University of Bern, Switzerland in 1997. After his studies he changed fields to Scientific Computing and has initially worked on building the Science Archive of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. The SDSS Archive is still one of the most important tools for astronomy and astrophysics. He has joined CERN in 2001 and started to work in the EU DataGrid (EDG) project’s data management work package WP2. He took over the lead of WP2 by the end of 2001. In the Enabling Grids for E-Science (EGEE) project he was again leading the team responsible for the re-engineering and development of the Grid data management middleware gLite. Since the beginning of 2006 he is leading the Swiss National Grid Initiative at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre CSCS in Manno where he took up responsibilities in several Swiss national Grid projects.

 

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