Speakers
Arjen van Rijn
(NIKHEF)
Pierre-Etienne Macchi
(CNRS-IN2P3)
Description
Former EGI.eu Executive Board member, Pierre-Etienne Macchi is the director of the IN2P3 Computing Center, a thematic computing center dedicated to research in high energy physics, nuclear physics and astroparticles.
He acts as the IN2P3 representative at the CNRS e-infrastructures committee and he participates, in close coordination with the IN2P3 management, to the policy definition of the Institute regarding computing. He attends the Group Council of France Grilles, to which IN2P3 is the main resource provider. He is also the CNRS representative at the French NREN (RENATER) board of users, and participates in various reflection groups set up by the French research ministry about data centers and research data organization.