Stig Skelboe has been appointed as Project Leader for the ESS Data Management, Computing and Software Centre in Copenhagen, part of the planned European science facility ESS.

Professor Stig Skelboe will be in charge of planning the building-up of the ESS Data Management, Computing and Software Centre (ESS DMSC) and producing information on ESS ICT needs for the ESS Pre-Construction Phase.

The DMSC will be in charge of handling data from the ESS, perform data analysis, as well as simulations of experiments and instruments and visualisation of experimental data. It will be placed in Copenhagen, Denmark.

- I am pleased to be able to announce today the appointment of Stig Skelboe, says Colin Carlile, Director-General of ESS AB. Data management and high performance computing are core businesses of large research facilities, and the DMSC will be a vital element in making the future science at ESS world-leading.

-The appointment of a project leader for the DMSC is also an important manifestation of the joint Danish-Swedish co-hosting of the ESS, and a symbol for the cross-border nature of international science facilities.

-I am proud to be able to lead the the building-up of the ESS DMSC. High performance computing is becoming an increasingly important tool for many scientific disciplines, and this is arguably the most interesting project within this area in Scandinavia today, says Stig Skelboe.

Stig Skelboe will be stationed at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. He is formely the Head of the Department of Computer Science at Copenhagen University. As Scientific Director at UNI-C in the mid-1990s he was in charge of developing Danish high performance computing capabilities for research and education.