Jan Astalos, MSc. [WP1.2; Email: Jan.Astalos@tuke.sk] He received the MSc. degree in computer engineering from the Slovak Technical University Bratislava in 1986. He is experienced in HPCN, tools for monitoring and dynamic load balancing, grid computing, large-scale applications, parallelization. He is author and co-athor of more as 20 papers. He has been participating in 5 projects within IST of 4 and 5 FP.
Prof. Gerassimos Barlas [External expert; Email: gbarlas at aus.ac.ae] was born in 1967 in Athens, Greece. In 1989 he received the B.Sc. degree in physics from the National University of Athens and earned a scholarship with the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of the NCSR "DEMOCRITOS". In 1990 he joined as a graduate student the National Technical University of Athens, from which he received a PhD in Computer Science in 1996. He worked as a visiting assistant professor for two year in the Informatics Department of the University of Cyprus, and for one year in the Computer Science Department of the University of Crete, Greece. He is currently an assistant professor at the Computer Science Department in the American University of Sharjah, UAE. G. Barlas is a member of the IEEE Computer Society.
Bartosz Balis, M.Sc. Eng. [WP3]
Prof. Marios Dikaiakos [WP2, WP4; Email: mdd at ucy.ac.cy; URL: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/mdd] Diploma in Electrical Engineering (Dipl.-Ing.) from the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (Summa cum Laude, 1988), M.A. (1991) and a Ph.D. (1994) in Computer Science both from the Department of Computer Science, Princeton University. Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Cyprus.Previous work in the University of Washington, Seattle.Research interests include Parallel and Distributed Systems, with an emphasis on Performance Analysis and Internet Computing.
Mario David, Ph.D. [WP4; Email david at lip.pt]
Miroslav Dobrucky, M.Sc. [WP1.2; Email: dobrucky.ui@savba.sk] He received the MSc. degree in computer engineering from the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava in 1986. He is experienced in HPCN, tools for mapping, large-scale applications, parallelization. He is author and co-athor of more than 50 papers. He has been participating in 6 projects within IST of 4 and 5 FP.
Marek Garbacz, M.Sc. Eng. [TAT; Email: Marek_Garbacz-AMG016 at email.mot.com] Master of Computer Science in Parallel Computing, 1999. Software Engineer at the Motorola Polska Software Center, Poland.
Santiago Gonzalez [WP3, Email: Santiago.Gonzalez at cern.ch; http://ific.uv.es/~sgonzale] Ph. D. degree in Physics from the University of Valencia (Spain) in 2000. He has been worked in ATLAS experiment (Tile Calorimeter subdetector) at CERN in the fields of High Energy Physics research (Thesis' title: Analysis of the Tile-Cal (ATLAS) prototypes and study of Higgs production at LHC). At the moment he is working at IFIC (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular) as a member of the IFIC computing research team and as an assistant professor in the Department of Atomic and Nuclear Physics of the University of Valencia.
Prof. Michael Gerndt [WP2; Email: gerndt at in.tum.de]. Associate Professor for Architecture of Parallel and Distributed Systems, University of Technology, Munich. Ph.D. University of Bohn (1989). Working on automatic performance analysis for parallel programs. Research interests include language design, compilation techniques, and programming tools for parallel and distributed systems.
Jorge Gomez [WP4, Email: jorge at lip.pt]
Victor Gulias [External expert, Email: gulias at dc.fi.udc.es]
Markus Hardt [WP4; Email: hardt at hik.fzk.de]
Dr. Ladislav Hluchy [WP1.2; Email: upsyhluc at savba.sk] He received the MSc. degree from the Slovak Technical University Bratislava in 1975 in computer engineering and the PhD degree in computer science in 1986 from the Slovak Academy of Sciences. He is the member of IEEE Computer Society. He is experienced in HPCN, tools for scheduling, mapping, monitoring and load balancing in cluster computing, large scale applications, parallelization, intelligent agents. Author and co-author of more than 100 papers. He has been leading themes in 8 projects within IST of 4 and 5FP.
Dr. Dieter Kranzlmueller [WP 1.1; EMail: kranzlmueller@gup.jku.at, Tel.: +43 732 2468 9499; Fax: +43 732 2468 9496] Diploma and Dr. degree in Computer Science at the Joh. Kepler University Linz. Working on high performance computing, parallel and distributed computing, visualization, and virtual reality. Special topics: Debugging, Massive Parallelism. Currently head of the Parallel Computing working-group at the GUP Linz.
Prof. Jacek Kitowski [WP3; Email: kito at uci.agh.edu.pl] Professor and habilitation in Computer Science, Ph.D. in physics. Head of Computer Systems Group at the Institute of Computer Science of the University of Mining and Metallurgy (AGH) in Cracow, Poland. He also works for CYFRONET, where he is responsible for development of high performance and storage systems. He is an author or co-author of more than 100 scientific papers published in international journals or presented at international conferences. His topics of interest include, but are not limited to large scale computations, parallel and distributed simulation algorithms, programming models, network computing, high availability and storage systems. He participated in many national and international projects. At present he is a task leader (task 3.4) in EU CROSSGRID Project, workpackage leader in EU project Pellucid (IST-2001-34519) and works for Polish-Austrian project PARMED (KBN A:8N/1999-2002). He initiated (and was working as a pincipal investigator) Polish-American Cooperation under Joint II Skoldowska-Curie Fund (MEN/NSF-94-103).
Miroslaw Kupczyk, M.Sc. [WP3; Email: miron at rose.man.poznan.pl]. M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the Poznan University of Technology (1999). Presently he is a PhD student at the same university. Currently he is employed as a HPC specialist position at the Supercomputing Department in Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center. His research interests concern resource management in the GRID technology and graph algorithms.
Maciek Malawski,M.Sc. Eng. [TAT; Email: malawski at uci.agh.edu.pl] Education: 1997-2001 - M.Sc. studies at the University of Mining and Metallurgy in Krakow. Major: computer science. Specialty: computer systems engineering. M.Sc. thesis title: Advanced Library for Parallelization of Irregular and Out-of-Core Problems. Graduated with honors in May 2001. Work: Since October 2001 as Technical & Research Assistant in Institute of Computer Science, UMM Krakow.
Rafael Marco [WP4; Email: Rafael.Marco at cern.ch]
Prof. Tomas Margalef [External expert; Email: tomas.margalef at uab.es] Associate professor of the Computer Science Department at the Universitat Autonoma Barcelona. Ph D in Computer Science, UAB, 1994. Research interests include, but are not limited to automatic performance analysis of parallel and distributed applications, and application of parallel and distributed computing to forest fire simulation.
Dr. Karol Martinka [WP1.2; Email: Karol.Martinka@shmu.sk] Hydrometeorologist with more than 20 years experience in operational Hydrometeorological and Hydrological Service. He is specialist for the development of new methods for area modelling in hydrology using remote sensing data and geographical information system. Dealing with simple lumped, linear, non-linear and distributed models. Former WMO Consultant in connection with implementation of the hydrological and water management projects in Asia and South West Pacific. In 1979, he has been appointed Chief Technical Adviser of the WMO/UNDP Project PAK/74/027 and PAK/75/FIT "Flood Forecasting and Warning System for the Indus River Basin" in Pakistan. Recently he is closely co-operating with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the field of areal modelling within the international projects in Europe. At the present time he is Head of the Foreign Relations Department of the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute. Author or co-author of 30 various scientific papers and reports.
Dr Joao Paulo Martins Conceicao [WP4; Email: martinsj at lip.pt; TEL: (+351) 217973880; FAX: (+351) 217934631] Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Lisbon in 1995. He has been involved in research projects in the fields of computing and networking applied to High Energy Physics. Currently he works at the LIP Computer Center where he is responsible for the central Linux services and member of the LIP computing research team.
Dr. Rafael Menendez de Llano Rozas [WP4; Email: rafa at atc.unican.es]. M.S. and Doctor's degree in physics in 1987 and 1993 respectively. Since 1988 with the Departamento de Electronica y Computadores, Universidad de Cantabria. Working on paralell programing in distributed systems.
Dr. Norbert Meyer [WP3, Email:meyer at man.poznan.pl ]. Dr. Meyer received the M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the Poznan University of Technology (1993), Ph.D. degree from the same university. Currently he is the head of the Supercomputing Department at Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center. His research interests concerns resource management and security issues, mainly in the aspects of connecting independent, geographically aware Grid domains.
Prof. Costas Mourlas [External expert; Email: mourlas at ucy.ac.cy; Web: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~mourlas] Undergraduate studies at the University of Crete, Greece (B.Sc. in Computer Science, 1988) and graduate studies at University of Athens, Greece (PhD in Computer Science 1994). He has worked as Research Associate and taught at the Department of Informatics at the University of Athens (1989-1995) and at the University of Cyprus (Visiting Assistant Professor, 1997). He was accepted as an ERCIM fellow and worked at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK for post-doctoral studies through research (1998). His research interests include Parallel and Distributed Systems, Real-Time Processing and Distributed Multimedia Systems.
Bartosz Niezgodka [External expert; Email: barn at icm.edu.pl]
Dr. Andreu Pacheco [External expert; Email: andreu.pacheco at ifae.es] PhD degree in Physics from the UAB. Head of the computing services at IFAE (Institut de Fisica d'Altes Energies). Coordinator of several projects related to the Atlas experiment and grid computing.
Prof. Rizos Sakellariou [External expert; Email: rizos at cs.man.ac.uk; Web: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~rizos] Rizos Sakellariou is with the Computer Science department, University of Manchester. His research interests include parallel and distributed systems and optimizing compilation.
Javier Sanchez [WP4; Javier.Sanchez at ific.uv.es ]
Dr. Eng. Renata Slota [WP3; EMail: rena at uci.agh.edu.pl]
Prof. Pedro Trancoso [External expert; Email: pedro at ucy.ac.cy; Web: http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~pedro] Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus. Undergraduate studies at the Techincal University of Lisbon, Portugal (Computer and Electronics Engineering, 1992). Graduate studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A. (M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Computer Science, 1995 and 1998 respectively). He has worked at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, U.S.A. as a Researcher (1997), at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A. as a Visiting Scholar (2000) and at Intercollege Limassol as an Assistant Professor (1998-2001). His research interests include computer architecture with a focus on the memory hierarchy, architecture-aware optimizations for database workloads, advanced memory technologies and power-aware optimizations.
Eleni Tsiakkouri [WP4; Email: cstsiak at ucy.ac.cy] Graduate student and Research Assistant, Computer Science Department, University of Cyprus.
George Tsouloupas, M.Sc. [WP2/4; Email: georget at ucy.ac.cy] Graduate student and Research Associate, Computer Science Department, University of Cyprus.
Kasia Zajac, M.Sc. Eng. [TAT; Email: kzajac at uci.agh.edu.pl] Assistance professor, Stanistaw Staszic University of Mining and Metallurgy, Krakow.
Dr. Wolfgang Manner [Email: Wolfgang.Manner at cern.ch] PHD 1961 Munich (neutron moderation). In High Energy Physics since 1962. Bubble Chamber work at Argonne. Participation in the CERN experiments CERN-Munich, ACCMOR, ALEPH, ATLAS. Mainly software oriented, he has written programs for the detector description in monte carlos, event reconstruction and data analysis. Affiliated with the Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Krakov.
Pawel Wolniewicz, M.Sc. [WP4; Email: pawelw at rose.man.poznan.pl]. Mr Wolniewicz graduated from Poznan University of Technology and received M.Sc. in computer science in 1997. Currently, he works for Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poznan, Poland. He is Ph.D. Candidate in department of computer science Poznan University of Technology. His research interests include metacomputers, distributed environments and scheduling.
Wei Xing, M.Sc. [WP2/4; Email: xing at ucy.ac.cy] Graduate student and Research Associate, Computer Science Department, University of Cyprus.
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