Andrej Filipčič • F9

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

Jožef Stefan Institute
University of Nova Gorica

Experimental particle physics
Cosmic-ray and astrophysics
Computing and HPC

Professor at University of Nova Gorica, School of Science

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

COBISS

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

J1-5440 Search for microscopic black hole signatures with ultra-high energy cosmic rays 8/1/13 - 7/31/16 PhD Danilo Zavrtanik 3,336
J1-6607 Data Analysis Tools and Environment for Physics Research with the ATLAS Detector 7/1/04 - 6/30/07 PhD Borut Paul Kerševan 2,617
J1-7487 Eksperimentalna fizika osnovnih delcev (Slovene) 1/1/96 - 6/30/01 PhD Marko Mikuž 6,436
J1-9146 New atmospheric monitoring devices and techniques for Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes 7/1/18 - 6/30/21 PhD Samo Stanič 3,231
J2-6756 Analysis of material damage and activation in large scale fusion reactors - application to the reactor JET 7/1/14 - 6/30/16 PhD Igor Lengar 4,848
J7-2220 Gridifikacija podatkovne analize za fiziko delcev: Pilotski projekt Slovenske nacionalne iniciative za grid (Slovene) 5/1/09 - 4/30/12 PhD Marko Mikuž 2,794
J7-9803 Development and Implementation of Tools for the Physics Research with the ATLAS Detector in the Grid Environment 1/1/07 - 12/31/09 PhD Borut Paul Kerševan 2,789
L3-3375 Introduction of threedimensional radiotherapy treatment planning in Slovenia 7/1/01 - 6/30/04 PhD Hotimir Lešničar 5,390
V1-9103 Interakcije osnovnih delcev pri ekstremno visokih energijah (Slovene) 9/1/96 - 10/31/98 PhD Danilo Zavrtanik 3,079
V2-0128 SiGNET - razvoj in implementacija tehnologij Grid v evropskem projektu EGEE s prenosom v slovenski e-prostor (Slovene) 9/1/04 - 8/31/06 PhD Marko Mikuž 3,351
V2-0888 Razvoj, standardizacija in slovenska pilotna implementacija protokolov in servisov Grid v kontekstu evropskega projekta EGEE (Slovene) 10/1/03 - 9/30/05 PhD Marko Mikuž 2,465
V4-0995 Raziskave aerosolov v ozračju kot indikatorja transporta onesnaževal z zračnimi tokovi nad Slovenijo (Slovene) 9/1/04 - 8/31/06 PhD Klemen Bergant 3,521

Programs

P0-0514-0106 Experimental Particle Physics 1/1/99 - 12/31/03 PhD Marko Mikuž 4,758
P1-0031 Astroparticle physics 1/1/04 - 12/31/08 PhD Danilo Zavrtanik 3,425
P1-0031 Astroparticle physics 1/1/09 - 12/31/14 PhD Danilo Zavrtanik 3,482
P1-0031 Astroparticle physics 1/1/15 - 12/31/21 PhD Samo Stanič 4,177

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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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Prof. Dr. Andrej Filipčič