Fabiola Gianotti
Fabiola Gianotti
Fabiola Gianottiis an Italian particle physicist and the Director-General of the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Her mandate began on 1 January 2016 and runs for a period of five years. She is the first woman to hold the position of CERN Director-General...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPhysicist
Date of Birth29 October 1960
CountryItaly
concrete peace
CERN is a concrete example of worldwide, international co-operation - and a concrete example of peace. The place which makes, in my opinion, better scientists, but also better people.
centre concrete cooperation cradle example excellence peace physicists pride scientific shining source technology
CERN is a centre of scientific excellence and a source of pride and inspiration for physicists from all over the world, a cradle for technology and innovation, and a shining concrete example of scientific cooperation and peace.
people
Working with so many people from all over the world is extremely enriching and stimulating.
among dark matter questions
Among the questions we have in mind: dark matter, antimatter, and matter symmetry.
based few nature simple though
Like in nature, I like things which are based on a few simple principles, even though their manifestation can be very rich.
difficult knowledge search
The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
gives home
For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
both complex global longer region resources
Our research is so complex that the resources of a single region of the world are no longer enough - both intellectually and economically, it must be a global effort.
fully including maintain staff users
I will fully engage myself to maintain CERN's excellence in all its attributes, with the help of everybody, including CERN Council, staff and users from all over the world.
based create follows invent musical physical recipe time weighed
Musical harmony is based on physical principles, while in cooking, ingredients must be weighed out with precision. At the same time, you have to be able to invent because if one follows the same recipe all the time, you never create anything new.
standards incomplete quarks
The top quark was discovered in 1995 and since then the Higgs has become an because the standard model was incomplete with out it.
dark
Dark matter is everywhere. In this room. Everywhere.
eye ignorance dark
When we look at the universe, what we see by eye or with our telescopes is only five percent of the universe. The rest, 95 percent is dark. Dark meaning, first of all, not visible to our instrument. Second, dark also indicates our ignorance. We don't know what's the composition of this part of the universe.
science environment grew
I grew up in environment that had more women in science.