ALBERTO PEPE
Center for Astrophysics
Harvard University
60 Garden St., MS 42
Cambridge, MA 02138
apepe@cfa.harvard.edu
EDUCATION
2010. Ph.D. Information Studies.
UCLA — University of California, Los Angeles
Doctoral dissertation: Structure and Evolution of Scientific Collaboration Networks in a Modern Research Collaboratory.
Doctoral committee: Christine Borgman (Chair), Leah Lievrouw, Ramesh Srinivasan, Mark Hansen, Deborah Estrin.
Doctoral coursework: available here.
2003. M.Sc. Computer Science.
UCL — University College London
2002. B.Sc. Astrophysics.
UCL — University College London
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2010-present. Seamless Astronomy and Data Visualization Team.
Harvard/CfA — Center for Astrophysics. Cambridge, MA.
2006-2010. Statistics and Scientific Data Practices Team.
CENS — Center for Embedded Networked Sensing. Los Angeles, CA.
Summer 2007. Digital library Research and Prototyping Group.
LANL — Los Alamos National Laboratory. Los Alamos, NM.
2004-2006. Information Technology Department.
CERN — European Organization for Nuclear Research. Geneva, Switzerland.
2004. Scientific Computing and Data Visualization Group.
CINECA — InterUniversity Consortium. Bologna, Italy
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2011-2012. NASA Astrophysics Data Analysis Program Grant (PI)
2010. ASIS&T Best Dissertation Award
2008-2010. NSF Human and Social Dynamics Grant (Associate)
2006-2010. Microsoft Research, Scientific Computing Fellowship
2005-2006. Marie Curie Fellowship
2004. Italian National Research Council Fellowship
SKILLS
Languages.
Besides Italian, my lingua madre, I am fluent in both English and French. I read and understand Spanish and, when needed, I speak a very colorful version of it.
Computers.
I use Python, R, Processing, and LaTeX.
