Oxana Smirnova | The Profile

August 1986

Admitted as a student to the Faculty of Physics of the Moscow State University

January 1992

Received MSc from the Nuclear Physics Department of the Faculty of Physics , Moscow State University

Thesis "Tests of Some QCD Predictions for Inclusive Hadron Spectrae in e+e- Annihilation at the Z Boson Energy" (in Russian), supervisor Dr. Leonid Tkatchev.

March 1992

Joined the LNP laboratory of the JINR, Dubna, Russia, as a junior researcher

Member of the Hadron Calorimeter team of the DELPHI experiment at CERN

September-December 1993

Visiting researcher at IPNL, Lyon, France

Performance analysis of the DELPHI Hadron Calorimeter

May-September 1994

Visiting researcher at CERN, Geneva, Switzeralnd

Providing software support for the DELPHI Hadron Calorimeter Cathode Read-Out project.

October 1994 - October 1996

PhD position with the DELPHI group at the Particle Physics Division, Lund University, Sweden (on leave from JINR).

Thesis "Studies of the Fragmentation Process in Hadronic Decays of Z Boson", supervisors Prof. G. Jarlskog and Prof. B. Lorstad

December 1996 - December 1997

Visiting researcher at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

Finalising the DELPHI paper on fragmentation functions components, including their application for defining the strong coupling constant using power corrections.

January 1998 - ongoing

Research Assistant, Assistant Professor, Researcher and Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the Division of Particle Physics, Lund University, Sweden.

With the DELPHI Group (until 2001): transverse mass dependence of Bose-Einstein correlations; analysis of transverse and longitudinal fragmentation functions; analysis of the T-odd quark fragmentation function.
With the ATLAS Group (since 2000): distributed computing architecture, tools and infrastructures; intermittency studies at minimum bias
Developed and taught courses: Modern Elementary Particle Physics, Introduction to programming and computing for scientists, Grid Computing Concepts and Tools.
Obtained a Docent degree in September 2001.
Since 2001, focussed on e-Science and distributed computing for High Energy Physics (architecture, services, tools and infrastructures)
Since 2006, liaison (coordinator) between the Nordic Tier1 computing centre and CERN
In 2007 apointed a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)

July 2002 - September 2003 (on leave from Lund)

Paid Associate at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland

ATLAS Grid Architect, coordinator of the ATLAS-EDG Task Force
Contribution to the WLCG Working Groups, most notably, collecting the common HEP applications use cases (HEPCAL)
Preparing and executing applications at the Nordic Gid testbed, in particular, the ATLAS Data Challenges.
Developing the Web monitoring interface for NorduGrid

November 2004 - October 2005 (on leave from Lund)

Asociated Member of Personnel at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.

Designing and establishing a distributed computing system for the ATLAS experiment
Coordinating ATLAS Tier0 tests and Grid infrastructure deployment and testing

August 1986	Admitted as a student to the Faculty of Physics of the Moscow State University
January 1992	Received MSc from the Nuclear Physics Department of the Faculty of Physics , Moscow State University Thesis "Tests of Some QCD Predictions for Inclusive Hadron Spectrae in e+e- Annihilation at the Z Boson Energy" (in Russian), supervisor Dr. Leonid Tkatchev.
March 1992	Joined the LNP laboratory of the JINR, Dubna, Russia, as a junior researcher Member of the Hadron Calorimeter team of the DELPHI experiment at CERN
September-December 1993	Visiting researcher at IPNL, Lyon, France Performance analysis of the DELPHI Hadron Calorimeter
May-September 1994	Visiting researcher at CERN, Geneva, Switzeralnd Providing software support for the DELPHI Hadron Calorimeter Cathode Read-Out project.
October 1994 - October 1996	PhD position with the DELPHI group at the Particle Physics Division, Lund University, Sweden (on leave from JINR). Thesis "Studies of the Fragmentation Process in Hadronic Decays of Z Boson", supervisors Prof. G. Jarlskog and Prof. B. Lorstad
December 1996 - December 1997	Visiting researcher at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland Finalising the DELPHI paper on fragmentation functions components, including their application for defining the strong coupling constant using power corrections.
January 1998 - ongoing	Research Assistant, Assistant Professor, Researcher and Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at the Division of Particle Physics, Lund University, Sweden. With the DELPHI Group (until 2001): transverse mass dependence of Bose-Einstein correlations; analysis of transverse and longitudinal fragmentation functions; analysis of the T-odd quark fragmentation function. With the ATLAS Group (since 2000): distributed computing architecture, tools and infrastructures; intermittency studies at minimum bias Developed and taught courses: Modern Elementary Particle Physics, Introduction to programming and computing for scientists, Grid Computing Concepts and Tools. Obtained a Docent degree in September 2001. Since 2001, focussed on e-Science and distributed computing for High Energy Physics (architecture, services, tools and infrastructures) Since 2006, liaison (coordinator) between the Nordic Tier1 computing centre and CERN In 2007 apointed a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)
July 2002 - September 2003 (on leave from Lund)	Paid Associate at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland ATLAS Grid Architect, coordinator of the ATLAS-EDG Task Force Contribution to the WLCG Working Groups, most notably, collecting the common HEP applications use cases (HEPCAL) Preparing and executing applications at the Nordic Gid testbed, in particular, the ATLAS Data Challenges. Developing the Web monitoring interface for NorduGrid
November 2004 - October 2005 (on leave from Lund)	Asociated Member of Personnel at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. Designing and establishing a distributed computing system for the ATLAS experiment Coordinating ATLAS Tier0 tests and Grid infrastructure deployment and testing

Oxana Smirnova, Ph.D.