team.yaml

---
team:
  - name: "Binod Baniya"
    picture: "placeholder.png"
    text:
      Part of the GPU team at NRIS. He has experience in web and mobile application development, Large Language Models.
  - name: "Radovan Bast"
    picture: "rb.jpg"
    text:
      Main focus are the [CodeRefinery](https://coderefinery.org)
      project and the research software
      engineering groups. Specializes in software development, teaching, and
      improving usability of HPC services.
  - name: "Magnar Bjørgve"
    picture: "mb.jpeg"
    text:
      Magnar has a background in Applied Mathematics and is working within the GPU team at NRIS,
      focusing on accelerating software for both NVIDIA and AMD GPUs. He is also contributing
      to the [Norwegian AI Cloud](https://www.naic.no) in both storage solutions and training.
  - name: "Gregor Decristoforo"
    picture: "gd.jpg"
    text:
      Gregor is part of the [Research software engineering (RSE) group](https://research-software.uit.no) at UiT and the [LUMI User Support Team](https://www.lumi-supercomputer.eu). During his PhD and Postdoc in Computational Physics Gregor gained experience in parallel programming and research software engineering.
  - name: "Jørn Dietze"
    picture: "jd.png"
    text:
      Jørn Dietze is almost finished with a PhD in bioinformatics. He is
      working with high-performance computing systems and has experience with
      programming in Python, Julia, and a little bit of C. He is mainly busy
      with making the systems more usuable as part of NRIS at the University of
      Tromsø, Norway, and the [LUMI User Support
      Team](https://www.lumi-supercomputer.eu/).
  - name: "Gabriel Gerez"
    picture: "gg.jpeg"
    text:
      Gabriel is almost finished with his PhD in Theoretical chemistry. He is currently part of
      the Software team providing support with installation and use of scientific software
      in the clusters. He is part of the [Research software engineering (RSE) group](https://research-software.uit.no) at UiT where he helps researchers
      with issues such as code design and scalability of software to HPC.
      Gabriel is experienced in developing code in C++ and Python.
  - name: "Erik Heggeli"
    picture: "eh.jpg"
    text:
      Member of the GPU team and NAIC(Norwegian AI Cloud) within NRIS, Also work for the machine learning group @ UiT. Background in Computer Science.
  - name: "Dan Jonsson"
    picture: "dj.jpg"
    text:
      Member of the Software Installation Team at NRIS. Trying to provide a scientific software stack that offer both performance and reproducibility.
  - name: "Benedikt Kruse"
    picture: "placeholder.png"
    text:
      Part of the GPU team at NRIS. He has experience in various programming languages and Linux-based operating systems.
  - name: "Jim-Viktor Paulsen"
    picture: "placeholder.png"
    text:
      During my Ph.D. and postdoctoral work, I gained experience in computational physics.
      I have been an inventor and entrepreneur in Norway and Texas for many years.
      My programming skills include Fortran, C, and Python, with expertise in parallel computing using MPI and OpenMP.
      I also have experience with GPU offloading techniques using OpenACC, OpenMP, and CUDA.
  - name: "Espen Tangen"
    picture: "et.jpeg"
    text: "
    	Leads the training and outreach activities team (aka TrOuT) in NRIS. Have a background in computational chemistry, and more than 20 years of user-experienc. Primary contact if there is a need for any kind of information; access to test-accounts, presentation of the HPC-group for different research communities, hands-on exercises or training using NRIS hardware locally (including courses given at UiT)."
  - name: "Steinar Trædal-Henden"
    picture: "sth.png"
    text:
      Manager of the enterprise digital research services group at UiT. Deputy
      manager of the operations organization in NRIS.

past:
  - name: "Bente Barge"
    picture: "bsb.jpg"
  - name: "Andreas Evenstad"
    picture: "placeholder.png"
  - name: "Øystein Tveito"
    picture: "ot.jpg"
  - name: "Ilia Zhakun"
    picture: "iz.jpg"