Group Leader: Gerardo Ganis
Deputy Group Leader: Predrag Buncic
Secretariat: Yasemin Altinbilek

The SFT group in the EP department develops and maintains common scientific software for the physics experiments in close collaboration with the EP experimental groups, the IT department and external HEP institutes, providing common infrastructure and expertise to CERN and CERN-recognized experiments. Most of the activities are carried out in the context of the Applications Area of the LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) project. The group coordinates the software package of EP R&D (WP7), being directly involved in most of the WP7 tasks, and it is also involved in community initiatives such as the HEP Software Foundation (HSF). In addition, several group members have direct responsibilities in the software projects of the LHC experiments and FCC.

SFT projects are organised in five main areas: Simulation, ROOT, CernVM, Stacks and ML4EP.