#SRDD2018 Speakers

Full name

Sergio Maffioletti

Affiliation

EnhanceR project Director

Biography

After his doctorate in computer science at the University of Fribourg, Sergio worked at the Swiss National Supercomputing Center where he developed competences in High Performance and Grid computing. He joined the University of Zurich in 2009 as project director of the Grid Computing Competence Center. He was project manager of several initiatives for establishing a national academic e-infrastructure. He is now an infrastructure and application specialists at S3IT - the Service and Support for ScienceIT unit at the University of Zurich. There he consults and supports research groups in migrating complex data analysis usecases on large scale computational infrastructure; he helps institutes and research groups to understand their research infrastructure needs and how to develop a strategy for infrastructure services. Thanks to a dynamic and ever challenging environment, he developed competences spawning from infrastructure engineering, software development, project management, customer relationship management, but also as research consultant for a wide spectrum of research domains: from the scientific sector (chemistry, system biology, botany, geography, physics, biochemistry) to the financial one (economy, business and finance) to digital humanities (psychology, pedagogy, linguistics, history, archeology). He is also the project director of EnhanceR: a national initiative to provide specialised research IT support to the Swiss research academic sector (https://www.enhancer.ch/).

Session

A multidimensional approach to Open Science practices: illustrative examples from Swiss universities - Room AudiMax