Fabiola Gianotti (CERN) – Keynote speech at ALLEA General Assembly 2024 скачать в хорошем качестве

Fabiola Gianotti (CERN) – Keynote speech at ALLEA General Assembly 2024

Watch the inspiring keynote speech by Dr. Fabiola Gianotti delivered at the ALLEA General Assembly 2024 in Berlin. As the 2023 laureate of the Madame de Staël Prize for Cultural Values, Dr. Gianotti, CERN Director-General, shared her insights on 'European Research Collaboration in a Shifting Geopolitical Landscape: How Open Can We Be?'. About the Madame de Staël Prize: The Madame de Staël Prize is awarded to eminent scholars and intellectuals whose work represents a significant contribution to the cultural values of Europe and to the idea of European integration, thereby promoting and strengthening an understanding of Europe as multifaceted, intellectual, open and vibrant. The prize also seeks to underline the importance and value of outstanding scientific and intellectual activities for the advancement of the European project and our common values. About Fabiola Gianotti: Fabiola Gianotti is an experimental particle physicist. She has worked on several experiments at CERN, covering detector R&D and construction, software development and data analysis. A large part of her activity was devoted to the search for the Higgs boson. From March 2009 to February 2013 she was project leader (”Spokesperson”) of the ATLAS experiment. This was the period when the ATLAS and CMS experiments discovered the Higgs boson. Dr Gianotti is a foreign member of 8 academies of science and received 15 honorary doctorates from Universities worldwide. She 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 and the Enrico Fermi Prize of the Italian Physical Society, and received the Medal of Honour of the Niels Bohr Institute, the Wilhelm Exner Medal (Vienna) and the Tate medal of the American Institute of Physics for International Leadership. She was ranked 5th in Time magazine’s Personality of the Year in 2012. Since 1 January 2016 she is Director-General of CERN until 31 December 2025. This is the first time in CERN’s history that a Director-General is reappointed for a full second term. She is the first woman in this role.