Dr. Fabiola Gianotti - CERN Today and Tomorrow

Описание: Fabiola Gianotti received a Ph.D. in experimental particle physics from the University of Milano in 1989. Since 1994 she has been a research physicist at CERN, the European Laboratory for particle physics, and since August 2013 an honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh.

Dr Gianotti has worked on several CERN experiments, covering detector R&D and construction, software development and data analysis. She has been involved in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) project since the beginning (early ‘90s) in the context of the ATLAS experiment. She has contributed to all aspects of the experiment, from detector R&D, to the design of the electromagnetic calorimeter, the development of the physics potential and analysis strategies (in particular for the search of the Higgs boson), and preparation for data taking.

From March 2009 to February 2013 she held the elected position of project leader (”Spokesperson”) of the ATLAS experiment. On 4 July 2012 she presented the ATLAS results on the search for the Higgs boson in a seminar at CERN, which saw the formal announcement of the discovery of a new particle resembling the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments.

On 1 January 2016 she became Director-General of CERN with term of office ending on 31 December 2020. In November 2019 she was re-appointed for a second term of office starting on 1 January 2021. Dr Gianotti was a member of several international committees, such as the Scientific Council of the CNRS (France), the Physics Advisory Committee of the Fermilab Laboratory (USA), the Council of the European Physical Society, the Scientific Council of the DESY Laboratory (Germany), the Scientific Advisory Committee of NIKHEF (Netherlands). She was also a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the UN Secretary-General, Mr Ban Ki-moon.

She received honorary doctoral degrees from 14 Universities across the world and is a corresponding member of seven Academies of Sciences.

Dr Gianotti was awarded the honour of “Cavaliere di Gran Croce dell’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana”. She shared the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2013) and the Enrico Fermi Prize of the Italian Physical Society (2013), and she received the Medal of Honour of the Niels Bohr Institute (Copenhagen, 2013), the Wilhelm Exner Medal (Vienna, 2017) and the Tate medal of the American Institute of Physics for International Leadership (2018).

She was ranked 5th in Time magazine’s Personality of the Year in 2012, included among the “Top 100 most influential women” by Forbes magazine (USA, 2013 and 2017) and considered among the “Leading Global Thinkers of 2013” by Foreign Policy magazine (USA, 2013).