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.
IT Communications
IT Education
IT Outreach
IT Liaison with IGOs
Member of CERN Yellow Reports Editorial Board
Member of CERN Heritage Committee
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
Presenter
Organising Committee
Facilitator
Presenter
Organising Committe: Celebrating 30 years since Sir Tim's proposal for the World Wide Web
CERN representative at Web@30 celebration and at Royal demonstration of CERN's NeXT cube, the world's first web server
Inaugural Lecture in TUDelft series
CERN Representative
Presentation
Lecture at Conference to brief MEPs
Presenter
Mentor and responsible for the team
Mentor and responsibible for the team
Organising Committee
Script and Voice
Lead the Policy Task force. First IGO to do so
Organising Committe and responsible for Webcast to the world and AV infrastructure. Biggest scientific event to date; webcast 1 million, TV coverage 1 billion
Organising Committee