Invited Track Speaker
Dr. Michal Simon, CERN
Dr. Michal Simon is a Software Engineer at the Storage Group in the CERN IT department. He is a graduate of Computer Science from Silesian University of Technology in Poland. He conducted research for his PhD thesis at CERN in the CMS Data Acquisition group. Subsequently, as a Senior Fellow, he joined the File Transfer Service project, one of the projects of critical importance for data management at CERN. Currently, Michal is one of the main developers of XRootD, the primary data
access framework for the high-energy physics community. He is also involved in the EOS project, the main storage solution used at CERN.