Fabrizio Gagliardi

From IRF 2008

Dr. Fabrizio Gagliardi

Dr. Fabrizio Gagliardi is Europe, Middle East, Africa and Latin America director for scientific and technical computing in External Research, at Microsoft Research Corporation.

Dr. Gagliardi joined Microsoft in November 2005 after a long career at CERN, the world leader laboratory for particle physics in Geneva, Switzerland. There he held several technical and managerial positions since 1975: Director of the EU Grid project EGEE (2004-2005); Director of the EU Data-Grid project (2001-2004); Head of mass storage services (1997-2000); Leader of the EU project GPMIMD2 (1993-1996).

Moreover, Dr. Gagliardi is co-founder and member of the International Advisory Committee of the Open Grid Forum. He is IEEE member since 1985.

Dr. Gagliardi has a doctor degree in computer science, granted by the University of Pisa in 1974.