Fabiola Gianotti

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Fabiola Gianotti

Fabiola Gianotti (born October 29, 1960 in Rome ) is an Italian experimental particle physicist and has been Director General of CERN since 2016 .

Gianotti received her PhD in particle physics from the University of Milan and was at CERN from 1987, where she was involved in the UA2 experiment and the ALEPH detector at the LEP . The subject of her dissertation in 1989 was data analysis on the UA2 detector. From 1990 she dealt with calorimeters with liquid argon , which led to participation in the ATLAS detector from 1992. In the late 1990s she was also involved in the search for supersymmetric particles on the LEP-2 ring. From 2009 to 2013, as the successor to Peter Jenni, she was the spokesperson for the ATLAS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. During this time, the complete LHC Run-1, in particular the period of the LHC's arrival (November 2009), the exploration of a previously unknown new energy range and in 2012 the discovery of the Higgs boson , an important part of the explanation of the mass. On January 1, 2016, she took over the position of General Director of CERN from Rolf Heuer .

In 2012 she was one of the winners of the Special Fundamental Physics Prize for the likely discovery of the Higgs boson. Also in 2012 she received the Gold Medal of the City of Milan and in 2013 the Premio Enrico Fermi of the Italian Physical Society and the Medal of Honor of the Niels Bohr Institute . In 2009 she received the title of Commendatore from the Italian President and in 2012 the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy (Grand Officer, Cavaliere di Gran Croce dell'ordine al merito della Repubblica). She is a corresponding member of the Accademia dei Lincei . She holds honorary doctorates from Uppsala, Oslo, McGill University and EPFL in Lausanne. In 2013 an asteroid was named after her: (214819) Gianotti . In 2015 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy , in 2016 to the Académie des sciences and the Academia Europaea , in 2018 to the Royal Society , and in 2019 to the American Philosophical Society . In 2017 she received the Wilhelm Exner Medal . In 2013 she received an honorary professorship at the University of Edinburgh .

Gianotti is also a member of the advisory committee of several research institutions such as Fermilab and DESY and is part of the scientific advisory body of the UN Secretary General.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gianotti, Accademia dei Lincei ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lincei.it
  2. ↑ a b Fabiola Gianotti, letter CV, CERN
  3. ^ Wilhelm Exner Medalist 2017 Fabiola Gianotti
  4. ^ Premio Enrico Fermi
  5. ↑ Members: Fabiola Gianotti. Royal Irish Academy, accessed May 6, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Directory of members: Fabiola Gianotti. Academia Europaea, accessed on August 8, 2017 (English, with biographical and other information).
personal data
SURNAME Gianotti, Fabiola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome