Dr. Paola Grosso
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Here you will find my education and working history, together with a list of my professional activities:

Education and employment history:

• Assistant professor: UvA (Mar. 2011 - current)
• Researcher: UvA (Sep.2004- Feb. 2011)
• Network engineer: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) - Stanford, Ca USA (Jan. 2001- Aug. 2004)
• Postgraduate researcher: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) - Stanford, Ca USA (Jan. 2000- Dec.2000)
• Graduate: Physics - University of Turin, Italy (degree on Feb.2000)
• Research fellowship: INFN - National Institute Nuclear Physics, Italy (Dec. 1995- Oct. 1996)
• Undergraduate: Physics - University of Turin, Italy (degree cum laude on Nov.1995)

Professional activities

• Co-chair of the NML-WG of the Open Grid Forum (2006-2009).

• Member of the organizing committee of the "Collaborative research using eScience infrastructure and high speed networks" workshop, co-located with the IEEE International Conference on eScience on 9 October 2012 in Chicago, Illinois (2012)
• Member of the organizing committee of the SuperComputing conference (2001-2005)
• Technical program committee member GridNets2009 (Third International ICST Conference on Networks for Grid Applications) [Athens, Greece]
• Technical program committee member GridNets2008 (Second International ICST Conference on Networks for Grid Applications) [Beijing, China]
• Technical program committee member MG08 (Mardi Gras 2008 conference Distributed Applications) [Baton Rouge, LS, Usa]
• Technical program committee member PFLDnet2007 (Fifth International Workshop on Protocols for FAST Long-Distance Net- works) [Marina del Rey, CA, Usa]

Scholarships, grants and prizes

• Optical Switching and Networking, top cited article. Jeroen van der Ham, Freek Dijkstra, Paola Grosso, Ronald van der Pol, Andree Toonk, Cees de Laat, "A distributed topology information system for optical networks based on the semantic web", Elsevier Journal on Optical Switching and Networking, Volume 5, Issues 2-3, June 2008, pp 85-93
• Best paper award ABC:MI'10. Zhiming Zhao, Paola Gosso, Ralph Koning, Jeroen van der Ham, Cees de Laat, "An agent based planner for including network QoS in scientific workflows", Int'l workshop on Agent Based Computing: from Model to Implementation VII (ABC:MI'10)
• 2008 International award for Innovation in Networking' from CENIC - Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California
• SLAC research division top performer 2004;
• SLAC research division top performer 2003;
• Della Riccia Fellowship 2000, awarded to outstanding young Italian Physics researchers to work abroad;
• INFN (Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics) Research Fellowship 1996, granted to recently graduated promising Master students.