CTO for Computing

Luca is part of the CTO office of openlab. Luca has a master's degree in computer science, and he joined CERN in 2015.


He is leading the system administration team responsible for the management of the computing resources in openlab and in charge of providing access and support to end-users, in particular concerning performance tuning and profiling of scientific applications.

The team is also responsible for the organisation of trainings and topic-oriented workshops in areas of system performance optimisation, with invited experts both from CERN and the industry.

Currently, Luca is co-responsible for the procurement, installation, testing and hardware support of servers and storage system equipment in the CERN data centres.

Luca Atzori