Fabiola Gianotti signs her contract as CERN's new Director- General

Today, 12 December 2014, Fabiola Gianotti signed her five-year contract as the new CERN Director-General. Her mandate will begin on 1 January 2016.

 

Fabiola Gianotti (left) and President of CERN Council Agnieszka Zalewska (right) after the signature of the contract.

 

The Italian physicist, Fabiola Gianotti was appointed as the Organization’s next Director-General at the 173rd Closed Session of the CERN Council on 4 November. The appointment was formalised this week at the December session of Council.


More news from this week Council meetings can be found here.

by Antonella Del Rosso