Ulrich Schwickerath
Applied Physicist In IT at CERN
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Top SchoolUlrich Schwickerath is an applied physicist turned IT specialist with 13+ years at CERN designing and operating large-scale batch, Grid and Cloud services for a global scientific user community. He blends experimental high-energy physics expertise—holding a summa cum laude PhD—with low-level system and HPC work, bringing a researcher’s rigor to production infrastructure. At CERN he has been the long-term steward of the DELPHI experiment’s software stack and now serves as IT Coordinator for Scientific Data Preservation and CERN representative in DPHEP, reflecting a rare combination of service operations and archival responsibility. His background includes hands-on evaluation of high-performance interconnects (InfiniBand) and practical experience supporting Higgs searches and new-physics analyses. Known for quietly bridging experiment needs with resilient IT solutions, he excels at preserving scientific value while evolving scalable compute platforms. Based in Geneva, he pairs deep academic credentials with pragmatic systems engineering across decades of collider computing.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Physics, maxima cum laude, Diplom, Physics, maxima cum laude at Universität Karlsruhe (TH) / University of KarlsruhePhD, high energy physics, summa cum laude, PhD, high energy physics, summa cum laude at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Funker, OG, Funker, OG at military serviceAbitur, Abitur, Abitur, Abitur at Regino Gymnasium Prüm
Github Skills (53)
open-science10
observability10
json-schema10
kibana10
open-data10
research-data-management10
portal10
elasticsearch10
elastic10
visualizations10
flask10
puppet9
python9
elasticsearch-plugin9
aix9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
schwicke/hexapod-robi
Jan 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:31 commits, 93 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
schwicke/opendata.cern.ch
Jun 2024 - Mar 2025
Source code for the CERN Open Data portal
Contributions:129 pushes, 11 branches in 8 months
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