Maria Grazia Giuffreda

Dr. Maria Grazia Giuffreda is Associate Director at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) in Lugano, Switzerland.

Maria Grazia Giuffreda studied computational chemistry in Belgium, where she received her Ph.D. in 2001. After that she was a post-doc at ETH Zurich in the Computer-Aided Chemistry (Informatikgestützte Chemie) group. In 2006 she started to work at CSCS as a User and Application support specialist, in 2010 she became Group Leader of the User Support and in 2013 she became Associate Director for the User Program and in charge of the User Engagement and Support Unit. Since 2021 she is responsible and coordinates the Strategic Roadmaps of the Center.

Since 2010 Maria Grazia Giuffreda is in charge of the National Calls for Proposals and the Review Process for the selection of the scientific projects and the distribution of compute and data resources and since 2013 of User Lab Program. In January 2025 she has also become head of the corporate communication.

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