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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 named 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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