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| birth_place = [[Medellín, Colombia]]

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| alma_mater = [[University of Antioquia]] (BSc) [[University of Colorado Boulder]] (PhD)

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| website = {{url|http://fperez.org/}}

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'''Fernando Pérez''' is a [[Colombians|Colombian-American]] physicist, software developer, and [[free software]] advocate. He is best known as the creator of the [[IPython]] programming environment,<ref name="Nature 2014a"/><ref name="Nature 2014b"/><ref name="infoworld interview"/><ref name="i programmer"/><ref name="moore foundation announcement"/><ref name="campus tech"/> for which he received the 2012 [[Free Software Award]] from the [[Free Software Foundation]] and for his work on [[Project Jupyter]] for which he received the 2017 [[ACM Software System Award]] .<ref name="FSF"/><ref name="UCB FSF"/><ref name="heise FSF"/> He is a fellow of the [[Python Software Foundation]],<ref name="PSF fellows"/> and a founding member of the [[NumFOCUS]] organization.<ref name="BIDS_people"/><ref name="NumFOCUS members"/>

== Life and career ==

Fernando Pérez was born in [[Medellín]], [[Colombia]], and has BSc in Physics from [[University of Antioquia]] and a PhD in [[particle physics]] from [[University of Colorado Boulder]], where he worked on numerical simulations in [[Lattice QCD]].<ref name="LBL new hires"/> He moved to California in 2008, where he currently works as an associate professor in the UC Berkeley Department of Statistics.<ref name="Berkeley_Statistics"/> Previously, he was a staff scientist at [[Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory]]<ref name="LBL new hires"/> and associate researcher at the [[Berkeley Institute for Data Science|Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)]].<ref name="BIDS_people"/><ref name="UCB Jupyter"/> Pérez was namesnamed Faculty Director at BIDS stating July 2024 .<ref name="BIDS_faculty_director"/>.<ref name="BIDS_faculty_director_2"/>

Pérez began working on [[IPython]] as a side project in 2001, and is a co-founder of [[Project Jupyter]], which evolved from IPython in 2014.<ref name="Nature 2014a"/><ref name="UCB FSF"/><ref name="IPython history"/> He received a 2023 [[NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal]] for his leadership of Project Jupyter.<ref name="NASA award"/>

==References==

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<ref name="FSF">[https://www.fsf.org/news/2012-free-software-award-winners-announced 2012 Free Software Award winners announced] by Libby Reinish. Free Software Foundation, March 2013.</ref>

<ref name="IPython history">{{Cite web|url=https://ipython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/about/history.html|title=History — IPython documentation|website=ipython.org}}</ref>

<ref name="NASA award">{{Cite web|url=https://bids.berkeley.edu/news/fernando-p%C3%A9rez-honored-nasa-exceptional-public-service-award|title=Fernando Pérez honored by NASA with the Exceptional Public Service Award}}</ref>

<ref name="moore foundation announcement">[https://www.moore.org/newsroom/press-releases/2015/07/07/$6m-for-uc-berkeley-and-cal-poly-to-expand-and-enhance-open-source-software-for-scientific-computing-and-data-science $6M for UC Berkeley and Cal Poly to expand and enhance open-source software for scientific computing and data science]. Moore Foundation Press Release, July 2015.</ref>

<ref name="PSF fellows">{{Cite web|url=https://www.python.org/psf/members/|title=PSF Membership Roster|website=Python.org|access-date=2015-07-14|archive-date=2020-04-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200423184647/https://www.python.org/psf/members/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

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Nature 507, 523-525 (March 2014) doi:10.1038/nj7493-523a</ref>

<ref name="Nature 2014b">[http://www.nature.com/news/interactive-notebooks-sharing-the-code-1.16261 Interactive notebooks: Sharing the code] by Helen Shen. Nature 515, 151–152 (November 2014) doi:10.1038/515151a</ref>

<ref name="BIDS_faculty_director">{{Cite web|url=https://statistics.berkeley.edu/about/news/perez-named-faculty-director-berkeley-institute-data-science|title=Pérez named Faculty Director at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science|website=}}</ref>}}

<ref name="BIDS_faculty_director_2">{{Cite web|url=https://bids.berkeley.edu/news/berkeley-institute-data-science-appoints-fernando-p%C3%A9rez-next-faculty-director|title=Berkeley Institute for Data Science appoints Fernando Pérez as the next Faculty Director}}</ref>

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