Axel NAUMANN


NGT Project coordinator

Educated as a physicist in Germany, The Netherlands, and at Fermilab, Axel got tempted by the wonders of software, computing, algorithms and alike. After working on ROOT for many years he moved to NGT. Axel is a CERN and Swiss delegate to the ISO C++ committee; he is contributing technical work in one of NGT’s tasks (1.7) on new programming languages. He was the founding chair of the CERN OSPO.

Fields of interest:

  • Algorithms, computing, programming languages, machine learning
  • How to enable innovation and creativity
  • Diversity and designing teams