Fabiola Gianotti

Fabiola Gianotti (born 1962 in Rome) is an Italian particle physicist experimental. 2009-2013 she was spokesperson for the ATLAS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider ( LHC) at CERN.

Gianotti received his doctorate at the University of Milan in particle physics and was in 1987 at CERN, where she was involved in the UA2 experiment and the ALEPH detector of the LEP. Her doctoral thesis in 1989 was the data analysis at the UA2 detector. From 1990, she was engaged in calorimeters with liquid argon, which led to participation in the ATLAS detector in 1992. In the late 1990s she was also involved in the search for supersymmetric particles at LEP -2 ring. In 2009 she was the successor of Peter Jenni spokesperson for the ATLAS collaboration, to which up to 3000 physicists are involved and the 2012 discovery of a compatible with the Higgs boson particle posted ( independently confirmed by the second major LHC detector CMS). The identification with the Higgs boson is through continuous further measurements examined ( 2013).

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 was awarded the Gold Medal of the city of Milan. In 2009 she received the President of Italy, the title of Commendatore.

Gianotti is also in the advisory committee of Fermilab.