Fabiola Gianotti#
| Membership Number: | 4402 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
Present and Previous Positions
- CERN
Fields of Scholarship
- Accelerator based particle physics
- High-energy physics
Honours and Awards
- Honorary Professor, University of Edinburgh
- Corresponding member of the Italian Academy of Sciences (“Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei”)
- Foreign member of the US National Academy of Sciences
- Foreign member of the French Academy of Sciences
- Honorary doctoral degrees from University of Uppsala (2012), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale (EPFL) de Lausanne (2013), McGill University Montreal (2014), University of Oslo (2014), University of Edinburgh (2015)
- 2009 "Commendatore" awarded by the Italian President Giorgio Napolitano
- 2012 “Grande Ufficiale dell’ordine al merito della Repubblica”, awarded by the Italian President Giorgio Napolitano
- 2012 Special Fundamental Physics Prize of the Milner Foundation
- 2012 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics for her leadership role in the Higgs boson discovery
- 2013 Enrico Fermi Prize of the Italian Physical Society
- 2013 Medal of Honour of the Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen
- 2014 Order of Merit of the Italian Republic awarded by the Italian president, Giorgio Napolitano
- 2019 Bruno Pontecorvo Prize
- 2020 Named Ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences by Pope Francis
- 2023 Madame de Staël Prize (ALLEA) "in recognition of her remarkable scientific achievements and her exemplary leadership as Director-General of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)"
