Olivier Rouchon

After graduating as a Computer Science engineer, and various stints with French ISPs, Olivier Rouchon spent seven years at Dell as an IT project manager. In 2006, he joined CINES, a French national data centre for higher education and research, and held different managing positions in software development before leading the Digital Preservation department. In addition to his management duties, he published papers relating the long term preservation of digital objects, is actively involved in the French Aristote – PIN (Pérennisation des Informations Numériques) working group as a coordinator, and seats at the ABES (Bibliographic Agency for Higher Education) and HUMA-NUM (Very Large Research Infrastructure in Social Sciences and Humanities) Scientific Committees. He also had a five years stint as the head of the HPC department between 2013 and 2018.