Lilit Axner, PhD

ENCCS Director

Lilit has over 10 years of project management and coordination experience with EU projects. She has coordinated SNIC centers within PRACE Infrastructure since 2010 and is also a group leader of the PRACE peer review processes for access to EuroHPC (pre-)exascale systems. Previously she was also co-leading the PDC business unit at PDC High Performance Computing Center in Stockholm, Sweden for the last five years. Lilit has been a work package leader in the HPC-Europa3 EU H2020 project, task leader in the FocusCoE EU H2020 project, the manager of the ScalaLife EU FP7 project and carried activities within the DEISA2 EU FP7 project. Prior to these positions she was an HPC adviser at SURFsara the National Supercomputing and e-Science Support Center in the Netherlands. Lilit holds a PhD in Computer Science and has an MBA degree.