Susana Sanchez

Contact Info

e-mail: sseiaa.es Dpto. Astronomía Extragaláctica Instituto Astrofísica Andalucía Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n 18008 Granada Spain

Background

Susana Sánchez has a degree in computer engineering from the Universidad de Granada. She has worked as system manager at the Instituto Mediterraneo de Estudios Avanzados (CSIC-UIB) and also as a software engineer developing scientific tools for data sharing and publishing. Since 2007 she belongs to the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC), where she has worked as technical responsible of the e-CA project for promoting the e-Science tools in Andalusia. She collaborated with the GRID-CSIC project on the installation and configuration of the IAA-CSIC Ibergrid node and migrated astrophysics applications to the Grid. She has been working as a programmer in the collaboration with the Kapteyn Institute to improve the Groningen Image Processing System – GIPSY for data cubes analysis, building a Graphical User Interface called GUIpsy and connecting it with the Virtual Observatory. In 2010 she started to participate in EU FP7 funded project “Wf4Ever: Advanced Workflow Preservation Technologies for Enhanced Science”, where she develops astrophysics workflows in order to contribute to the development of standards that allow the preservation of scientific workflows. She was the technical responsible of AMIGA4GAS project for the deployment astrophysics workflows on heterogeneous distributed computing infrastructures.

Currently she is involve in the desing of the platforms for processing SKA data. Specifically, she is member of the consortium in charge of designing the SKA Science Data Processor and of AENEAS,  a H2020 project for designing the European SKA Regional Center.