Prof. Dr. Andrej Filipčič

Prof. Dr. Andrej Filipčič
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Education
  • Bachelor's degree  B. Sc. in Physics  Physics  University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics 1989
  • Master's degree  University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics 1992
  • Doctor's degree  Ph. D.   University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics 1995 
Employment
  • Jožef Stefan Institute
  • University of Nova Gorica
Field of research
  • Experimental particle physics
  • Cosmic-ray and astrophysics
  • Computing and HPC
Teaching

Professor at University of Nova Gorica, School of Science

Awards, distinctions
  • Silver order of merit for discovery og Higgs boson at ATLAS Experiment at CERN
  • Zois award for discoveries in cosmic-ray physics with Pierre Auger Observatory, Malargue, Argentina
Projects

PAO, ATLAS, CPLEAR, Vega, SiGNET, SLING, Nordugrid

Programs

Biography

Academic and research history:

  • 1990: B. Sc. in Physics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics (FMF), University of Ljubljana (UL), Slovenia
  • From 1991: Researcher at Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI), Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • From 1991: Scientific Associate at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN), member of the CPLEAR collaboration, from 2003 onwards also a member of the ATLAS collaboration
  • 1993: M. Sc. in Physics at the FMF, UL, Slovenia
  • 1995: Ph. D. in Physics at the FMF, UL, Slovenia
  • 1997-1998: Postdoctoral researcher at Argonne National Laboratory and Fermilab, USA
  • From 1997: Member of the Pierre Auger collaboration
  • From 1998-2008: Assistant Professor at University of Nova Gorica (UNG), Slovenia
  • From 2008: Full Professor at UNG
  • From 2011: Member of Nordugrid collaboration

Awards:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences award for HPC grid integration, 2015
  • Silver order of merits of the Republic of Slovenia for discoveries with ATLAS Experiment, 2016
  • Zois award for discoveries in cosmic-ray physics at Pierre Auger Observatory, 2020

Project lead and scientific responsibilities:

  • Pierre Auger Observatory LIDAR coordinator, 2007-2009
  • ATLAS Tier-3 computing center coordinator, 2014-2015
  • ATLAS Speakers Committee coordinator and member, 2014-2017
  • ATLAS Distributed Computing Operations coordinator, 2015-2017
  • ATLAS Distributed Computing Coordinator, 2017-2019
  • ATLAS Workflow Management Software Coordinator, 2019-2020
  • ATLAS High-Performance Computing coordinator, since 2020

Committees:

  • ATLAS International Computing Board, since 2009
  • ARNES Expert Council member, since 2010
  • Nordugrid Collaboration Board member, since 2011
  • WLCG Grid Deployment Board member, since 2015
  • ATLAS Offline Activity Coordination Board member, 2017-2019
  • WLCG Grid Deployment Board Advisory Committee, 2018-2020
  • SLING Consortium Coordination Board member, since 2018
  • EuroHPC Vega procurement coordinator, since 2018
  • EuroHPC Governing Board Expert for Slovenia, since 2019
  • EuroHPC Vega Expert Board member, since 2019
  • Leonardo EuroHPC Consortium Board member, since 2019

Organization of international conferences:

  • Nordugrid 2017 - Programme Committee
  • Nordugrid 2019 - Programme Committee
  • ASHPC 2021 – Programme Committee
  • ASHPC 2022 – Programme Committee Chair

Meetings and workshop organization:

  • Nordugrid 2010 Ljubljana conference
  • ARC 2017 Ljubljana workshop
  • NDGF-T1 2019 Ljubljana workshop

EU Grants:

  • 2020 - 2022: The representative of the UNG in the project named "EuroCC", funded within the Horizon 2020 (H2020) European Union research framework.
  • From 2020: Vega EuroHPC Joint undertaking peta-scale HPC
  • From 2021: EUMaster4HPC project, member, representative of UNG.
  • From 2022: InterTwin Horizon-Infra-2021-Tech-01-01 project, participant representive of JSI and IZUM, Maribor, Slovenia.

Research Interest:

During 2000-2010 my research focused on building the LIDAR detector for measurements of the atmospheric transmission for fluorescence detector at Pierre Auger Observatory, where I made the data acquisition system for automated scanning and integrated it with Observatory data taking. Since then, four LIDAR systems have been working continuously in a fully automated way.

In 2003 I joined the ATLAS collaboration, focusing on Monte-Carlo simulations and physics analysis. In 2004 I built SiGNET Tier-2 computing centre at JSI from scratch and fully integrated it with grid infrastructure processing data of ATLAS, Belle-2 and Pierre Auger collaborations. Since then, I have taken over several leading roles in ATLAS. As a distributed computing coordinator I have managed a group of 150 ATLAS scientists and coordinated the operations on 120 computing centers worldwide. During my coordination, several countries joined ATLAS computing efforts (Russia, Morocco, Algeria, Azerbaijan, Slovakia). In China, I had coordinated the effort at CNIC, Chinese Academy of Science (CAS), to prototype the ATLAS computing production at Chinese HPCs (Tianhe-1,2 Beijing HPC and Shanghai HPC) and received an award from CAS for best HPC application (2015).

In 2010, I initiated the activities at ARNES to build their first supercomputer and educate their people for HPC engineering and operations. In 2017 I started the initiative to join academic and research institutions of Slovenia into the SLING consortium. As a result, we have coordinated the work for the HPC-RIVR project in the eastern region of Slovenia to build a network of supercomputing centres. In 2019, with Jona Javorsek, I have applied successfully for EuroHPC funding of Vega, which is now one of the top supercomputers in the world. I am leading the procurement of Vega and coordinated the effort on the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking level. Vega was included in the ATLAS computing environment and participated almost 35% of all computing power to ATLAS production in 2021, demonstrating the impact of modern computing technologies for experimental particle physics.

As a researcher, I have published more than 1.200 scientific papers in experimental particle physics, cosmic-ray physics and computing, cited more than 65.000 times, reaching an h-index of 105. I was an invited speaker at many international conferences and gave invited lectures on several academic and research institutions.

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