Maria Girone
{{short description|Head of CERN openlab}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Maria Girone
| image = DSC 0935 (2).jpg
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| alma_mater = University of Bari (PhD)
| fields = Particle physics
Supercomputers
Computational science
Cloud computing
| awards = Marie Curie Fellowship
| workplaces = CERN
Imperial College London
| known_for = CERN openlab
| website = {{URL|https://openlab.cern/about/our-people/maria-girone}}
}}
Maria Girone is the Head of CERN openlab.{{DBLP}}{{ACM Portal}} She leads the development of High Performance Computing (HPC) technologies for particle physics experiments.{{INSPIRE-HEP author}}
Early life and education
Girone studied physics at the University of Bari.{{Cite web|url=https://openlab-archive-phases-iv-v.web.cern.ch/about/people/maria-girone|title=Maria Girone |publisher= CERN openlab|website=openlab-archive-phases-iv-v.web.cern.ch|access-date=2020-01-23}} She earned her doctoral degree in particle physics in 1994. She soon became a research fellow on the ALEPH experiment, supporting analysis and acting as liaison for the accelerator.{{Cite journal|last=Girone|first=Maria|date=1995|title=Global analysis of tau hadronic branching ratios in ALEPH|doi=10.1016/0920-5632(95)00140-5|journal=Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements|language=English|volume=40|issue=1–3|pages=153–162|bibcode=1995NuPhS..40..153G|issn=0920-5632|oclc=4647605015}} She was awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship and joined Imperial College London, where she worked on the hardware development for both the LHCb and ALEPH experiments.{{Cite web|url=https://openlab.cern/team/maria-girone|title=Maria Girone {{!}} CERN openlab|website=openlab.cern|access-date=2020-01-23}}{{Cite web|url=https://csc-archive.web.cern.ch/csc-archive/2013/iCSC2013/07-Mentors/Mentor_individual/Mentor_Girone/Mentor_Girone_with_bio.htm|title=CSC|website=csc-archive.web.cern.ch|access-date=2020-01-23}}
Career and research
CERN openlab was established in 2001 and supports academics at CERN in their collaborations with independent companies. Girone moved into scientific computing in 2002, working for the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG). The WLCG stores, shares and assists in the analysis of data from the Large Hadron Collider where she developed a persistence framework. The WLCG is the largest assembly of computing resources ever collected for a scientific endeavour.{{Cite web|url=https://www.top500.org/news/cern-prepares-for-new-computing-challenges-with-large-hadron-collider/|title=CERN Prepares for New Computing Challenges with Large Hadron Collider {{!}} TOP500 Supercomputer Sites|website=top500.org|access-date=2020-01-23}} In the Large Hadron Collider experiment detectors there are around one billion beam collisions per second.{{Cite web|url=https://sciencenode.org/feature/cern-pushes-back-the-frontiers-of-physics.php|title=CERN pushes back the frontiers of physics|website=sciencenode.org|access-date=2020-01-23}} WLCG analyses billions of beam crossings and tries to predict the detector response.{{Cite web|url=https://openlab.cern/cern-openlab-cto-gives-keynote-talk-isc-high-performance-conference|title=CERN openlab CTO gives keynote talk at ISC High Performance conference |publisher=CERN openlab|website=openlab.cern|access-date=2020-01-23}}
In 2009, whilst at the WLCG, Girone founded and led the Operations Coordinations team. She was appointed coordinator of the software and computing for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) in 2014. In this capacity, she was responsible for the operation of seventy computing centres across five different continents. She joined CERN openlab as chief technology officer (CTO) in 2016, and she's leading it since 2023.{{Cite web|url=https://2018.isc-program.com/presenter/|title=Presenter – June 24-28, 2018|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-23}}
She has worked on the upgrade of the Large Hadron Collider (the High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider), which will require up to one hundred times more computing capacity than it did originally.{{Citation|title=Tackling Tomorrow's Computing Challenges Today at CERN|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSENbawFXMY|language=en|access-date=2020-01-23}} This increase in capacity will come through access to commercial cloud computing platforms, data analytics, deep learning and new computing architectures.{{Cite web|url=https://blog.frontiersin.org/2019/06/24/answering-the-universes-big-questions-with-big-data-and-ai/|title=Answering the universe's big questions with Big Data and AI|last1=June 26|first1=RajeshN //|last2=Reply|first2=2019 at 4:04 pm //|date=2019-06-24|website=Science & research news {{!}} Frontiers|language=en|access-date=2020-01-23}}
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