Summary Maria Dimou studied physics and computing. After some years of work with IBM, she joined the EU-funded research project on network technologies EUREKA COSINE. At CERN she worked on the email gateway configuration and contributed to the definition of X.500 directory protocols, network topology and web support. She participated in the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) project for 13 years. She chaired and is now the advisor of the CERN Academic Training Committee and initiated the IT rapid e-learning project (this documentation site requires CERN login but the e-learning videos produced are publicly available on the CERN Document Server ) . During the Microsoft ALTernatives investigation she led the Documentation project, in favour of Open Source tools and the CERN-Solid collaboration. In the years 2022 and 2023 she contributed to the CERN IT Education Strategy and the led the creation of an Educational Materials Catalogue . Some detail
In the 2003-2016 period I worked in the Grid project. First, until 2009 with User Authentication and Authorisation software packages. This activity overlapped, since 2007 with my involvement, as the WLCG delegate to the GGUS development team. I chaired the Tracking Tools Evolution Task Force until the autumn 2013. I was one of the chairpersons of the Middleware Readiness Working Group. I was the CERN IT Training Officer between (2009-2015) and I continue as the deputy, responsible for defining, organising, approving training courses for the CERN IT dept. members , according to the organisation's strategy for the technical solution and its members' careers. In addition, since 2010, I participate, chaired for a number of years and now advise the CERN Academic Training Committee and sponsor some of the lectures in the programme. I initiated the CERN IT rapid e-learning project , conducted several Web Usability studies and co-chaired the Documentation Project, which mainly coordinated the creation of >200 Markdown Documentation sites. Having sponsored lectures in Academic Training , Terra Incognita series , I now contribute actively in the shaping of the CERN IT Education strategy, after the May 2022 reorganisation. In the framework of the Arts@cern programme, I collaborate with the artists in residence at CERN for issues related to computing and events in the CERN Computer Centre (CC). Example: Gilles Jobin's Strangels in the CC. In some part of 2016-2017 I am the scientific partner of Cassandre Poirier-Simon. I do this because I believe that science allows a person to live free and art makes life worth living. I have a daughterKleopatra Leda and a son, Evgenios. I take classes of classical, contemporary and flamenco dance. Click here for a more detailed CV (lacks info after 2011). Click short CV in french |