!!Fabiola Gianotti - Biography
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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 in the Physics Department of CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, and since August 2013 an honorary Professor  at the University of Edinburgh. She is also a corresponding member  of  the  Italian  Academy of Sciences (Accademia  Nazionale dei Lincei) and foreign associate member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States and of the French Academy of Sciences.
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Dr  Gianotti has worked on several CERN experiments,  being involved in detector R&D and construction, software development and data analysis.
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From March 2009 to February 2013 she held the elected position of project leader (”Spokesperson”) of the ATLAS  experiment. The ATLAS Collaboration consists  of 3000 physicists from 38 countries. On 4 July 2012 she presented the ATLAS results on the search for the Higgs boson in an historic seminar at CERN. This event marked the announcement of the discovery of the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments.
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Dr Gianotti is the author or co-author of more than 500 publications in peer-reviewed scientific  journals. She  has given more than 30 invited plenary talks at the major international conferences in the field.
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She  was/is 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 is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the UN Secretary-General, Mr Ban Ki-moon.
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She received honorary doctoral degrees from the University of Uppsala, the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, McGill University (Montreal), Oslo University and University of Edinburgh. Dr Gianotti was awarded the honour of “Cavaliere di Gran Croce dell’ordine al merito della  Repubblica”  by  the  Italian  President  Giorgio  Napolitano. She received the Special Fundamental Physics Prize of the Milner Foundation (2012), the Enrico Fermi  Prize of the Italian Physical Society (2013) and the Medal of Honour of the Niels Bohr Institute of Copenhagen (2013).
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She was included among the “Top 100 most inspirational women” by The Guardian newspaper (UK, 2011), ranked 5th in Time magazine’s Personality of the Year (USA, 2012), included among the “Top 100 most influential women” by Forbes magazine (USA,  2013)  and  considered  among  the “Leading  Global  Thinkers  of  2013”  by \\
Foreign Policy magazine (USA, 2013).
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On 1 st January 2016 she has become Director-General of CERN.