Dr. Oxana Smirnova is an Associate Professor at the Particle Physics division in Lund University, Sweden. A graduate of Moscow State University, she obtained Ph.D. in physics from Lund University, working with the DELPHI experiment at CERN. She is a member of the ATLAS collaboration at CERN, working with distributed computing. Oxana Smirnova is a liaison between CERN and the Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration for the purposes of providing the Nordic Tier-1 centre services, and is one of the developers of the NorduGrid ARC middleware.