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Charlotte Warakaulle shares her vision for the new International Relations (IR) Sector.
Fermilab’s Joel Butler will take the reins of the CMS collaboration in September
At its 173rd Closed Session today, CERN Council selected the Italian physicist, Dr Fabiola Gianotti, as the Organization’s next Director-General
As of today, LHCb has new management
For Lluis Miralles Verge, infrastructures come second to the people behind them
For the former head of the Technology department, the new year brings a new start as CERN’s Director for Accelerators and Technology
Tiziano Camporesi became head of the CMS experiment this month as UC Santa Barbara physicist Joe Incandela’s term came to a close
On 1 March, the ATLAS Collaboration welcomed a new spokesperson, Dave Charlton, and two new deputy spokespersons, Thorsten Wengler and Beate Heinemann