Tim Smith
Coordinator Of The Open Quantum Institute
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Smith is a physicist-turned-technology leader with 11+ years of experience orchestrating collaboration, communication and data services at CERN and now coordinating the Open Quantum Institute. He blends deep scientific training (PhD in Particle Physics) with hands-on IT leadership—running enterprise conferencing, content management, data services and outreach strategy for one of the world’s largest research organizations. An advocate for Open Science, he focuses on enabling research through tooling, efficient workflows and clear communication rather than purely building systems. Tim’s background ranges from managing tape robotics and automated Linux deployments to chairing institutional panels on equality and harassment investigations, showing a rare mix of technical, operational and governance expertise. Based in Geneva, he is also an avid mountaineer, reflecting a practical resilience and appetite for complex, long-term challenges.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Particle Physics, PhD, Particle Physics at The University of Birmingham
French
Github Skills (40)
zenodo10
research-data-management10
journal9
angularjs9
sqlalchemy9
flask9
open-access9
documentation8
python8
open-data8
rabbitmq8
open-science8
indico8
portal8
scientific-publications8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
TimSmithCH/TimSmithCH.github.io
May 2016 - Dec 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 798 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years 8 months
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TimSmithCH/MapTracks
Oct 2017 - Feb 2023
Contributions:1054 commits, 1718 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 4 months
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