Biographical Information

Paul Avery

Paul Avery received his Ph.D in High Energy Physics from the University of Illinois in 1980 and is Professor of Physics at the University of Florida. His research is in experimental High Energy Physics and he participates in the CMS experiment at CERN, Geneva. A Fellow of the American Physical Society, Dr. Avery is the Director of two national NSF-funded Grid projects, GriPhyN and the International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory (iVDGL). Both projects are collaborations of computer scientists, network specialists, physicists and astronomers who are conducting Grid research applied to several frontier experiments in physics and astronomy with massive computational and data needs. He is Co-Pi of the NSF funded projects CHEPREO, UltraLight and DISUN. Avery is a founding member of the Open Science Grid, which operates a national Grid cyberinfrastructure for data intensive science experiments.