Xavier Espinal Email & Phone Number

Geneva, Ge, Ch

- Ex-Officio Member of the CERN LHC Experiments Scientific Committee (LHCC)- Ex-Officio Member of the CERN Recognized Experiments Scientific Committee (REC)- LHC Computing Grid (LCG) Resource Manager - IT Engagement Deputy Lead for the Research and Computing Sector- Board Member of the European Science Cluster of Astronomy & Particle physics ESFRI research infrastructures (ESCAPE)- Core Software & Computing Consortium Board member of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE)- G7 Science & Technology 2024: Speaker and Panelist (Large Research Infrastructures)

- Data Management and Access Lead of the European Science Cluster of Astronomy & Particle physics ESFRI research infrastructures (ESCAPE) - Member of the Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee (NuPECC) Long Range Plan for Open Science and Data- Member of the Computing Contributions Board of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) - Member of the Advisory Board of Rucio (Scientific Data Management Software Framework)- Member of the Community Advisory Board of the EC project DICE (Data Infrastructure Capacity for EOSC)- Programme Committee co-chair of the 26th International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP2023)

Geneva, Switzerland

• IT Technical Coordinator for Experiments and Departments• Project co-coordinator High-Luminosity LHC R+D on Storage Consolidation, Datalakes and Data Access• Lead Data Infrastructure for Open Science WP in ESCAPE EU-funded project • Member of DUNE experiment Computing Governance Board

Storage Group

• Service Manager of EOS (Large Scale Disk Storage System) consisting of more than 140PB of disk space• Former Service Manager of the CERN Advanced STORage system (CASTOR), hierarchical disk and tape storage system holding more than 100PB of scientific data• Member of the Storage Technologies group at CERN (IT-ST).• IT-liaison with the fixed target experiments at CERN and AMS experiment• Member of the CERN-IT consultancy group

Head of the production services group at PIC. The group was responsible for networking, large scale data storage (disk and tape), batch system (pbs, torque/maui), configuration and installation services (puppet, yaim, kickstart), databases (Oracle, MySQL and Postgress) and interactive services.PIC is a scientific computing datacenter providing services to the world-wide LHC computing grid as a Tier-1 center and datacenter for several astrophysics, cosmology and medical imaging experiments and projects.

Coordinate and follow-up the ATLAS experiment computing requirements and activities at PIC as a WLCG Tier-1 facility.

Teaching thermodynamics and fluid mechanics. First year of the engineering degree.

Coordination of Grid Data Processing activities in the ATLAS experiment. The team was in charge of event simulation, data processing and reprocessing campaigns over the WLCG (world-wide LHC computing grid)

Co-coordinator of ATLAS Distributed Computing Grid Data Procesing, co-coordinator of Atlas Distributed Computing world-wide daily operations. Member of the ATLAS Distributed computing experts team.

Creation and coordination of the ATLAS world-wide computing shift team. The team was in charge of following ATLAS computing activities round the clock: data transferring and replication and workload operations: data processing and reprocessing.

ATLAS computing expert. Co-coordinator of the EGEE simulated event production in ATLAS.

Neutrino physics: K2K long baseline neutrino experiment Particle detectors: A photon counting X-ray imaging project for medical applications using a semiconductor detector.

System administrator for synchrotron group and undergraduate research fellowship in X-ray imaging project.

Ph.D, Particle Physics

Physics degree

Graduate, Physics

Physics degree