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Biography
Fernando Pérez is a physicist, software developer, and free software advocate. He is best known as the creator of the IPython programming environment, for which he received the 2012 Free Software Award from the Free Software Foundation. He is a fellow of the Python Software Foundation, and a founding member of the NumFOCUS organization.
Life and career
Fernando Pérez was born in Medellín, Colombia, and has a PhD in Particle Physics from University of Colorado Boulder, where he worked on numerical simulations in Lattice QCD. He moved to California in 2008, where he currently works as a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and associate researcher at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science.
Pérez began working on IPython as a side project in 2001.