Jan Bot

Jan Bot is a bioinformaticion by training (Delft University of Technology) and has been using the grid for about five years. He has worked on genomic analysis using Grid Computing and done multiple large computing projects. He has implemented his own pilot job framework called PiCaS and has used this to run a variety of mostly biology oriented applications on heterogeneous compute infrastructures. He has won the Enlighten Your Research 3 challenge in which additional connectivity was established between 12 Dutch grid clusters. He is currently a consultant for SURFsara, co-organizing the next round of Enlighten Your Research and looking after biology related compute projects.
More info: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jan-bot/a/182/572