Berkeley Lab will host Dr. Fabiola Gianotti, CERN’s Director-General, on Oct. 21. While at the Lab, Dr. Gianotti will meet with Lab leadership and researchers from the Physical Sciences Area, and tour the Superconducting Magnet Facility.

Join a Fireside Chat

Dr. Gianotti will join Berkeley Lab Director Mike Witherell for a fireside chat at 1:30 p.m., where they’ll talk about her career, CERN, and the future of physics. This event will be open virtually to the entire Lab community. Participants can join via Zoom.

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About Director Gianotti

Dr. Fabiola Gianotti is the Director-General of CERN, the European laboratory for particle physics and an internationally recognized expert in particle physics. She received her Ph.D. in experimental particle physics from the University of Milan, Italy. She is the first woman to lead CERN and the first Director General to be reappointed for a full second term. She previously headed the ATLAS experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider during the discovery of the Higgs boson particle. For more about the discovery of the Higgs boson at CERN, check out the documentary Particle Fever.

Dr. Gianotti’s accolades include the prestigious title of “Cavaliere di Gran Croce dell’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana,” the 2013 Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, the Enrico Fermi Prize of the Italian Physical Society, and the 2019 Tate Medal of the American Institute of Physics for International Leadership.