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== 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]].<ref name="BIDS_people"/><ref name="UCB Jupyter"/>

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"/>