Alberto PACE

Co-Leader ot the WP4 Communication, Education and Outreach workpackage

Alberto Pace is a member of the IT department at CERN where he holds the IT education responsibility and is the director of the CERN School of Computing.

In past years, Alberto has led 5 different groups and various sections at CERN providing scientific computing services and infrastructure needed by the laboratory and its experiments to accomplish their mission, and ensuring a coherent development process for Physics Data management activities, strongly driven by operational and user needs.

He also represents CERN in the Advisory Board of the Internet Society (isoc.org) and the World Wide Web Consortium (w3c.org).

He has more than 30 years experiences in computing services, infrastructure, software engineering, accelerator control and accelerator operation. He graduated in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in 1987, where he received the first prize among Electronic Engineering students of the North Italy section.

Field of interest:

• mathematics
• software engineering
• computing service operations
• digital and analog electronics
• (volleyball, scuba diving and sailing).