Jesús Marco de Lucas

Dr. Marco de Lucas is a Research Professor at CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), and currently the Vice President of Scientific and Technical Research.

He obtained his PhD in Experimental Particle Physics in 1989. He has been coordinator of research activities related to the Higgs boson at DELPHI at CERN. Since 1997, Dr. Marco de Lucas is also member of the CMS collaboration (Compact Muon Solenoid) in LHC (Large Hadron Collider) at CERN, in which he is involved in a variety of computing sub-projects.

He was the director of the Institute of Physics of Cantabria (IFCA) from 2003 to 2007, and the scientific and technical coordinator of the Physics Area at CSIC from 2008 to 2010. Dr. Marco de Lucas is promoter of the research line in advanced computing and e-science in IFCA. He has also coordinated several European projects, such as Interactive EU Grid, DEEP-Hybrid DataCloud. He is the proponent and co-director of the first official university master’s degree in Data Science (UIMP-University of Cantabria) launched in 2017.