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= NeIC Team and Contact =
'''We are a distributed organisation consisting of administration and technical experts working at NordForsk, university IT-centres, and national e-infrastructure centers in the Nordics.'''

The NeIC is located at NordForsk in central Oslo, Stensberggata 25, 0170 Oslo, Norway, together with the Nordic organisations Nordic Innovation Centre and Nordic Energy Research.

[http://maps.google.no/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=no&geocode=+&q=stensberggata+25,+oslo&aq=+&sll=61.143235,9.09668&sspn=18.368471,53.569336&ie=UTF8&hq=+&hnear=Stensberggata+25,+Sankt+Hanshaugen,+0170+Oslo&z=16 Click here for map]


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<NAME> is the Director of the NeIC, and is employed at [http://nordforsk.org NordForsk] in Oslo.

Prior to this he has held positions at the Research Council of Norway and the Department of Oceanography and Wave Statistics at DNV, and was also Chief Research Scientist at the Norwegian Computing Center, where he worked on statistical modelling of environmental data.

He has served as Chair of the Steering Board of Nordic Data Grid Facility, and has played a key role in the planning of the Nordic eScience Initiative. He has participated in expert committees on e-Infrastructures under the auspices of the US National Science Foundation and the European Commission, and in The Netherlands, Sweden and South Africa. He served as Chair of the e-Infrastructures Reflection Group (e-IRG) from 2011 to 2012. Høst holds a Master’s degree in Fluid Mechanics and a Ph.D. in Science and Mathematical Statistics, both from the University of Oslo.

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<NAME> is located at the University of Oslo, University Center for Information Technology (USIT), and holds a 80% position at NeIC. He was educated at Humboldt University in Berlin, and holds a PhD in Computer Science focusing on Grid Resource management.

Thomas has extensive experience in researching, designing, developing and operating distributed e-Infrastructures for scientists in Norway, the Nordics and Europe. He is currently coordinating USIT's HPC compute area which serves local, national and international scientists from various desciplines.

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<NAME> has a background in systems administration from the High Performance Computing Center North [http://www.hpc2n.umu.se/ HPC2N], Umeå University, and has been working for the NDGF Tier-1 as systems integrator for most of the project’s lifetime. He is now Area Coordinator and is responsible for delivering the WLCG Tier-1 services to the LHC experiments.

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<NAME> is employed at the [http://www.pdc.kth.se/ PDC Center for High Performance Computing], KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm and holds a 80% position at the the NeIC. She was educated at the University of Innsbruck and has a Ph.D. in Natural Sciences, focusing on astrophysics and grid computing.

Barth has extensive experience in project management and systems administration for distributed computing infrastructures at both the national and the European levels, including her current role as national coordinator for the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) node in Sweden.

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<NAME> is employed at the [http://www.pdc.kth.se/ PDC Center for High Performance Computing], KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm and holds a 50% position at the NeIC as Generic Area Coordinator.

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<NAME> is located at the [http://www.nsc.liu.se National Supercomputer Centre (NSC)], Linköping University, and holds a 80% position at the NeIC. He was educated at Linköping University and has a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics, focusing on automated protein family definition and distributed computing. He has experience in coordination of distributed projects, community building and managing development projects for secure science gateways and persistent and accessible storage.

Hedlund is currently engaged as an Application Expert in Bioinformatics at the Swedish e-Science Research Centre.

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<NAME> is employed at NordForsk, Oslo. He works as the NeIC Administrative Coordinator.

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<NAME> is the NeIC Systems Software Specialist, located in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has been involved with the NDGF Tier-1 since 2007, both as a storage architect and administrator of central services, and as lead developer of storage software for the Tier-1.

Behrmann holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science. His previous employments include associate professor at Aalborg University and software developer at NORDUnet.

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<NAME> is located at CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd in Finland and holds a 60% position at NeIC. He is the project manager of the NeIC's Tryggve project on sensitive data for the bio- and medical sciences.  He is also a project director of research infrastructures at CSC coordinating CSC’s participation in various research infrastructure projects. He has broad experience from different roles ranging from software development and customer interaction to project management and leading a service area.

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<NAME> is located at CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd in Finland and holds a 80% position at NeIC. He is the project manager of the NeIC's Glenna project on cloud services.  He is also a industrial relations maganer at CSC coordinating CSC’s engagements with partners in industry. 

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<NAME> is employed in Tromsø (Norway) as a senior engineer in the High Performance Computing Group at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and contributes to advanced user and application support, code optimization and parallelization, and holds a 50 % position at NeIC. He has a PhD in theoretical chemistry and as code developer is contributing to a number of quantum chemistry programs. He enjoys learning new programming languages and approaches, and to teach programming to scientists.

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Magnus is employed at High Performance Computing Center North HPC2N, Umeå University. <NAME> is managing the SGAS Maintenance Project. He has a background as a system engineer, developer, systems integrator, project manager, and more from multinational companies, local county council and Umeå university. 

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<NAME> has a master degree in Computer System and Networks. Since 2007 Dmytro has been working in data processing for the LHC-experiments: ALICE and ATLAS. Currently Karpenko occupies a senior engineer position at the University centre for information technology in Oslo, where he is involved in the operation of the Oslo part of the Nordic WLCG Tier-1 center. Karpenko is also hired by NeIC to perform supervision of the grid production in the whole Nordic cloud.

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<NAME> is located at the [http://www.nbi.ku.dk/ Niels Bohr Institute], University of Copenhagen. He has been involved with the NDGF Tier-1 for many years, first maintaining the monitoring infrastructure and now also as a system administrator. He holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, and has been working with systems administration and software development since 2002.

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<NAME> is currently employed at the [http://www.nsc.liu.se National Supercomputing Centre] in Linköping, Sweden.

His main responsibility is for operations for SweStore – the Swedish Storage Initiative. His Tier-1 work involves operations for various support services.

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<NAME> is employed as a grid administrator at [http://www.csc.fi CSC] in Finland. He is responsible for the Nordic NGI (NGI_NDGF) and also performs general technical work for the NDGF Tier-1.

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<NAME> is located at the University of Oslo, [http://www.usit.uio.no/english/ University Center for Information Technology]. He has been involved in development of the NorduGrid ARC middleware for several years and is currently acting as ARC release manager in addition to doing development tasks for the NDGF Tier-1.

Nilsen holds a PhD in High Energy Physics and was acting as deputy leader of the development work group during the EMI EU-project.

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<NAME> is located at the University of Oslo, [http://www.usit.uio.no/english/ University Center for Information Technology]. She has a background in high energy physics, with a PhD on Supersymmetry at the ATLAS detector at CERN. Pedersen is acting as ARC co-release manager together with <NAME>, in addition to doing development tasks for the NDGF Tier-1. 

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<NAME>, is located near Geneva, Switzerland and holds a 50% position as project manager with NeIC EISCAT_3D Support project. He was educated at the University of Victoria in Canada and holds a PhD in Physics focusing on LEP Standard Model measurements. He has worked since 1999 based at CERN and has experience in distributed computing since 2000 through the series of European Grid projects.

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<NAME> is employed at CSC in Finland. He has previously been involved with the Finnish Tier-2 site, assisting with the development of the CMS project. Currently his main responsibility is the ALICE experiment within the NDGF Tier-1. He is also responsible for Tier-1 accounting.

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<NAME> is employed at the [http://www.hep.lu.se/ Particle Physics division in Lund University], Sweden. A graduate of Moscow State University, she obtained a Ph.D. in Physics from Lund University, working with the DELPHI experiment at CERN. She is a member of the ATLAS collaboration at CERN, and is one of the developers of the distributed grid computing model.

Smirnova is also one of the initiators and early users of the NorduGrid ARC middleware. She serves as the CERN Liaison at the NeIC, representing the NDGF Tier-1 vis-à-vis the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid.

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<NAME> is located at the Computational Biology Unit (CBU), University of Bergen, Norway. He is working in the NeIC's Tryggve project on sensitive data for the bio- and medical sciences. He has a background as a software engineer, and got the master degree in Software Engineering of Distributed Systems at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.

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Pontus has worked in various roles within the fields of software development and operations and offers expertise in many different computer-centric fields, including performance.

His current focus is working with solutions for large scale storage to provide short term as well as long term storage for biological data.

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After Jonas received his MSc in bioinformatics at Uppsala University, he worked as a research assistent at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Molecular Evolution at the University. Between 2007 and 2011 Jonas held a position as a system expert at [http://www.uppmax.uu.se/ UPPMAX] super computing centre, with focus on large scale storage, bioinformatics and NGS. He was the project manager at the start up of UPPNEX. Jonas developed the first iRODS system at UPPNEX and is also the developer of the [https://portal.scilifelab.se/genomics/ portal for the National Genomics Infrastructure] and for the development of Swedish sensitive data platform Mosler.

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<NAME> is located at SciLifeLab in Stockholm, Sweden where he is the Data Manager at the National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden - NBIS. He is the system owner representative of the Mosler secure computing system for research using sensitive data, and a member of the Tryggve project. 
Niclas has a PhD in Microbiology from Uppsala University, and over the years he has worked with bio/informatics, line management, Lean, and Agile in both academia and industry.

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<NAME> earned his PhD in Evolutionary Biology at Uppsala University. His thesis focused on phylogenomics of oceanic bacteria and mitochondria.
Now he is working on the BILS Tools Platform, an initiative to create simple and secure web-based access to computational resources.

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#Juha is the guy who knows what is the difference of HTTP status codes 301 and 302, what is the fourth layer in OSI model, what is the opaque pointer and why it can not rain for two days in a row. He has a MSc in applied mathematics and computer science, solid background in software development and hands on experience of almost every modern programming language.
#Juha works at CSC - IT Center for Science with 50/50 allocation both for NeIC Tryggve project and for the Open Research Initiative (ATT-hanke) in Finland.

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title: Team and Contact
menu: 50
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= NeIC Team and Contact =
'''We are a distributed organisation consisting of administration and technical experts working at NordForsk, university IT-centres, and national e-infrastructure centers in the Nordics.'''

The NeIC is located at NordForsk in central Oslo, Stensberggata 25, 0170 Oslo, Norway, together with the Nordic organisations Nordic Innovation Centre and Nordic Energy Research.

[http://maps.google.no/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=no&geocode=+&q=stensberggata+25,+oslo&aq=+&sll=61.143235,9.09668&sspn=18.368471,53.569336&ie=UTF8&hq=+&hnear=Stensberggata+25,+Sankt+Hanshaugen,+0170+Oslo&z=16 Click here for map]


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<NAME> is the Director of the NeIC, and is employed at [http://nordforsk.org NordForsk] in Oslo.

Prior to this he has held positions at the Research Council of Norway and the Department of Oceanography and Wave Statistics at DNV, and was also Chief Research Scientist at the Norwegian Computing Center, where he worked on statistical modelling of environmental data.

He has served as Chair of the Steering Board of Nordic Data Grid Facility, and has played a key role in the planning of the Nordic eScience Initiative. He has participated in expert committees on e-Infrastructures under the auspices of the US National Science Foundation and the European Commission, and in The Netherlands, Sweden and South Africa. He served as Chair of the e-Infrastructures Reflection Group (e-IRG) from 2011 to 2012. Høst holds a Master’s degree in Fluid Mechanics and a Ph.D. in Science and Mathematical Statistics, both from the University of Oslo.

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<NAME> is located at the University of Oslo, University Center for Information Technology (USIT), and holds a 80% position at NeIC. He was educated at Humboldt University in Berlin, and holds a PhD in Computer Science focusing on Grid Resource management.

Thomas has extensive experience in researching, designing, developing and operating distributed e-Infrastructures for scientists in Norway, the Nordics and Europe. He is currently coordinating USIT's HPC compute area which serves local, national and international scientists from various desciplines.

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<NAME> has a background in systems administration from the High Performance Computing Center North [http://www.hpc2n.umu.se/ HPC2N], Umeå University, and has been working for the NDGF Tier-1 as systems integrator for most of the project’s lifetime. He is now Area Coordinator and is responsible for delivering the WLCG Tier-1 services to the LHC experiments.

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<NAME> is employed at the [http://www.pdc.kth.se/ PDC Center for High Performance Computing], KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm and holds a 80% position at the the NeIC. She was educated at the University of Innsbruck and has a Ph.D. in Natural Sciences, focusing on astrophysics and grid computing.

Barth has extensive experience in project management and systems administration for distributed computing infrastructures at both the national and the European levels, including her current role as national coordinator for the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) node in Sweden.

{% include person.wiki id="vitlacil" %}

<NAME> is employed at the [http://www.pdc.kth.se/ PDC Center for High Performance Computing], KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm and holds a 50% position at the NeIC as Generic Area Coordinator.

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<NAME> is located at the [http://www.nsc.liu.se National Supercomputer Centre (NSC)], Linköping University, and holds a 80% position at the NeIC. He was educated at Linköping University and has a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics, focusing on automated protein family definition and distributed computing. He has experience in coordination of distributed projects, community building and managing development projects for secure science gateways and persistent and accessible storage.

Hedlund is currently engaged as an Application Expert in Bioinformatics at the Swedish e-Science Research Centre.

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<NAME> is employed at NordForsk, Oslo. He works as the NeIC Administrative Coordinator.

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<NAME> is the NeIC Systems Software Specialist, located in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has been involved with the NDGF Tier-1 since 2007, both as a storage architect and administrator of central services, and as lead developer of storage software for the Tier-1.

Behrmann holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science. His previous employments include associate professor at Aalborg University and software developer at NORDUnet.

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<NAME> is located at CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd in Finland and holds a 60% position at NeIC. He is the project manager of the NeIC's Tryggve project on sensitive data for the bio- and medical sciences.  He is also a project director of research infrastructures at CSC coordinating CSC’s participation in various research infrastructure projects. He has broad experience from different roles ranging from software development and customer interaction to project management and leading a service area.

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<NAME> is located at CSC - IT Center for Science Ltd in Finland and holds a 80% position at NeIC. He is the project manager of the NeIC's Glenna project on cloud services.  He is also a industrial relations maganer at CSC coordinating CSC’s engagements with partners in industry. 

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<NAME> is employed in Tromsø (Norway) as a senior engineer in the High Performance Computing Group at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and contributes to advanced user and application support, code optimization and parallelization, and holds a 50 % position at NeIC. He has a PhD in theoretical chemistry and as code developer is contributing to a number of quantum chemistry programs. He enjoys learning new programming languages and approaches, and to teach programming to scientists.

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Magnus is employed at High Performance Computing Center North HPC2N, Umeå University. <NAME> is managing the SGAS Maintenance Project. He has a background as a system engineer, developer, systems integrator, project manager, and more from multinational companies, local county council and Umeå university. 

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<NAME> has a master degree in Computer System and Networks. Since 2007 Dmytro has been working in data processing for the LHC-experiments: ALICE and ATLAS. Currently Karpenko occupies a senior engineer position at the University centre for information technology in Oslo, where he is involved in the operation of the Oslo part of the Nordic WLCG Tier-1 center. Karpenko is also hired by NeIC to perform supervision of the grid production in the whole Nordic cloud.

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<NAME> is located at the [http://www.nbi.ku.dk/ Niels Bohr Institute], University of Copenhagen. He has been involved with the NDGF Tier-1 for many years, first maintaining the monitoring infrastructure and now also as a system administrator. He holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, and has been working with systems administration and software development since 2002.

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<NAME> is currently employed at the [http://www.nsc.liu.se National Supercomputing Centre] in Linköping, Sweden.

His main responsibility is for operations for SweStore – the Swedish Storage Initiative. His Tier-1 work involves operations for various support services.
 
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Ulf Tigerstedt is employed as a grid administrator at [http://www.csc.fi CSC] in Finland. He is responsible for the Nordic NGI (NGI_NDGF) and also performs general technical work for the NDGF Tier-1.

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<NAME> is located at the University of Oslo, [http://www.usit.uio.no/english/ University Center for Information Technology]. He has been involved in development of the NorduGrid ARC middleware for several years and is currently acting as ARC release manager in addition to doing development tasks for the NDGF Tier-1.

Nilsen holds a PhD in High Energy Physics and was acting as deputy leader of the development work group during the EMI EU-project.

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<NAME> is located at the University of Oslo, [http://www.usit.uio.no/english/ University Center for Information Technology]. She has a background in high energy physics, with a PhD on Supersymmetry at the ATLAS detector at CERN. Pedersen is acting as ARC co-release manager together with <NAME>, in addition to doing development tasks for the NDGF Tier-1. 

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<NAME>, is located near Geneva, Switzerland and holds a 50% position as project manager with NeIC EISCAT_3D Support project. He was educated at the University of Victoria in Canada and holds a PhD in Physics focusing on LEP Standard Model measurements. He has worked since 1999 based at CERN and has experience in distributed computing since 2000 through the series of European Grid projects.

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<NAME> is employed at CSC in Finland. He has previously been involved with the Finnish Tier-2 site, assisting with the development of the CMS project. Currently his main responsibility is the ALICE experiment within the NDGF Tier-1. He is also responsible for Tier-1 accounting.

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<NAME> is employed at the [http://www.hep.lu.se/ Particle Physics division in Lund University], Sweden. A graduate of Moscow State University, she obtained a Ph.D. in Physics from Lund University, working with the DELPHI experiment at CERN. She is a member of the ATLAS collaboration at CERN, and is one of the developers of the distributed grid computing model.

Smirnova is also one of the initiators and early users of the NorduGrid ARC middleware. She serves as the CERN Liaison at the NeIC, representing the NDGF Tier-1 vis-à-vis the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid.

{% include person.wiki id="li" %}

<NAME> is located at the Computational Biology Unit (CBU), University of Bergen, Norway. He is working in the NeIC's Tryggve project on sensitive data for the bio- and medical sciences. He has a background as a software engineer, and got the master degree in Software Engineering of Distributed Systems at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.

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Pontus has worked in various roles within the fields of software development and operations and offers expertise in many different computer-centric fields, including performance.

His current focus is working with solutions for large scale storage to provide short term as well as long term storage for biological data.

{% include person.wiki id="hagberg" %}

After Jonas received his MSc in bioinformatics at Uppsala University, he worked as a research assistent at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Molecular Evolution at the University. Between 2007 and 2011 Jonas held a position as a system expert at [http://www.uppmax.uu.se/ UPPMAX] super computing centre, with focus on large scale storage, bioinformatics and NGS. He was the project manager at the start up of UPPNEX. Jonas developed the first iRODS system at UPPNEX and is also the developer of the [https://portal.scilifelab.se/genomics/ portal for the National Genomics Infrastructure] and for the development of Swedish sensitive data platform Mosler.

{% include person.wiki id="jareborg" %}

<NAME> is located at SciLifeLab in Stockholm, Sweden where he is the Data Manager at the National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden - NBIS. He is the system owner representative of the Mosler secure computing system for research using sensitive data, and a member of the Tryggve project. 
Niclas has a PhD in Microbiology from Uppsala University, and over the years he has worked with bio/informatics, line management, Lean, and Agile in both academia and industry.

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<NAME> earned his PhD in Evolutionary Biology at Uppsala University. His thesis focused on phylogenomics of oceanic bacteria and mitochondria.

Now he is working on the BILS Tools Platform, an initiative to create simple and secure web-based access to computational resources.

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Samuel is working at BILS as a systems developer, developing infrastructure, and tools for things like  automated storage (iRODS) graphical user interfaces, and workflow and data management.

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