Victor Alessandrini Born in Argentina. PhD in Theoretical Physics, University of Buenos Aires. Visiting Scientist at Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley, USA and CERN Theory Division in the late 60’s and early 70’s. Associate Member at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy from 1972 to 1976. Professor of Theoretical Physics at Paris XI (Orsay) (1976 – 2002).

Director of IDRIS since 1993. Research Director at CNRS since 2002. Director of the DEISA Research Infrastructure.

Scientific competences in Physics:

• Quantum Field Theory
• Statistical Mechanics
• Algorithms in Computational Physics

Scientific competences in Computer Science:

• Computer architectures
• Performance engineering, object oriented software development
• Shared memory multithreaded programming
• Grid technologies in High Performance Computing