Fabiola Gianotti

Fabiola Gianotti  link (Physicist, academic administrator)
Born	29 October 1960 Rome, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Alma mater	University of Milan
Interests	Particle physics
Attended the 2017 Bilderberg as CERN director general

Fabiola Gianotti is an Italian physicist and administrator. On 1 January 2016 Fabiola Gianotti was made CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) Director-General, where she has pushed for ever larger and more expensive "colliders". She attended the 2017 Bilderberg meeting.

Education

Gianotti received her doctorate in particle physics from the University of Milan and was at CERN from 1987.

Career

From 2009 to 2013, she succeeded Peter Jenni as spokesperson for the ATLAS collaboration at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

On January 1, 2016, she took over the post of Director General of CERN from Rolf Heuer. In 2019, she was appointed by the CERN Council for a further term of office from 1 January 2021. This is the first time in the history of CERN that a Director General has been appointed to a full second term.

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

Honors and awards

In 2012, she was one of the laureates of the Special Fundamental Physics Prize for the probable 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 was awarded the title of Commendatore by the President of Italy and in 2012 the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy. 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 she was awarded an honorary professorship at the University of Edinburgh. In 2015 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and as 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, in 2019 to the American Philosophical Society (APS) and the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2017 she received the Wilhelm Exner Medal, in 2018 the Magellanic Premium of the APS. In September 2020, she was appointed a full member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences by Pope Francis.