LIP - Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas

Jorge Gomes

Jorge Gomes is head of the LIP distributed computing and digital infrastructures group. He coordinates the Portuguese Tier-2 for the CERN Worldwide LHC Computing Grid and is the technical coordinator of the Portuguese National Distributed Computing Infrastructure (INCD).

He is a scientific associate at CERN where he worked in the development of data acquisition systems for High Energy Physics experiments. He participated in pioneer projects in the domains of digital data communications and advanced videoconference over IP networks.

Since 2001 he participated in several large international e-science and e-infrastructure projects on distributed computing such as CrossGrid, Enabling Grids for E-Science (EGEE) I, II and III, Interactive European Grid (int.eu.grid), E-Infrastructure Shared Between Europe and Latin America (EELA), and Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe (EGI-InSPIRE).

He coordinated several activities in the context of the Portuguese National Grid initiative, among them the deployment of a national grid infrastructure service, and the main node for grid computing.

He coordinates the Portuguese participation in the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI), the largest multidisciplinary infrastructure for distributed scientific computing worldwide, and IBERGRID the regional initiative that joins scientific datacenters in Spain and Portugal. He is the Portuguese representative at the European Grid Infrastructure council.