Tim Smith

Physicist / Computer Scientist / Mountaineer

Coordinator of IT Education and Outreach at CERN

An Open Science advocate leading initiatives at CERN and in the wider science community. He drove the launch of CERN’s Open Data Portal to share LHC big data with the world, as well as the Higgs Boson webcast which shared its discovery live around the globe. He also instigated and nurtures Zenodo within the European Commission’s OpenAIRE project as an open data service for world-wide science.

Tim came to CERN at the end of the 80s, obtained a PhD in Particle Physics and performed research at the LEP accelerator for 10 years. He then joined the CERN IT Department to lead teams innovating in computing farm management, physics data management, collaboration tools, and open science service.

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Responsibilities

Current
Section Leader

IT Communications

IT Education

IT Outreach

IT Liaison with IGOs

Ad-personam

Member of CERN Yellow Reports Editorial Board
Member of CERN Heritage Committee

Past

Head of Collaboration, Devices and Applications Group
Member of Senior Staff Advisory Committee
Member of CERN Scientific Information Policy Board
Chair of Harassment Investigation Panel
Chair of Equal Opportunities Panel
WG Member: Data Protection Policy
WG Member: Open Source Software Licencing Policy
IT Technology Transfer Officer
Chair of The Nine (Senior Staff elected representatives)
WG Member: MultiMedia Licencing Policy
Head of User and Document Services Group
Head of Data Services Section
Head of Fabric Services Section

Coordinator of OPAL Lineshape Analysis
Coordinator of OPAL Lepton Pair Analysis

Outreach Highlights

TEDxVerbier, 2022
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Presenter

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EIROforum Conference: Grand challenges in AI and data science
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Organising Committee

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Sparks! Serendipity Forum: Future Intelligence
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Facilitator

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NIH Biomedical Data Ecosystem Workshop
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Presenter

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CERN's Web@30 Event
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Organising Committe: Celebrating 30 years since Sir Tim's proposal for the World Wide Web

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British Science Museum's Web@30 Events
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CERN representative at Web@30 celebration and at Royal demonstration of CERN's NeXT cube, the world's first web server

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Future Forward, Science in the Open Era, 2019
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Inaugural Lecture in TUDelft series

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LaReferencia signature with Zenodo, 2018
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CERN Representative

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OpenScience Summit Istanbul, 2018
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Presentation

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Open Science as a Common Good, European Parliament, 2017
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Lecture at Conference to brief MEPs

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TEDxChamonix, 2017
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Presenter

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Zenodo launched, 2015
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Mentor and responsible for the team

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Launched CERN's Open Data Portal, 2014
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Mentor and responsibible for the team

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The first TEDxCERN, 2013
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Organising Committee

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TEDEd Animation, 2013
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Script and Voice

Web Lesson Making of
CERN releases photos under Creative Commons licence, 2013
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Lead the Policy Task force. First IGO to do so

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CERN's Higgs Seminar, 2012
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Organising Committe and responsible for Webcast to the world and AV infrastructure. Biggest scientific event to date; webcast 1 million, TV coverage 1 billion

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Inauguration of the LHC, 2008
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Organising Committee

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