Angela Bracco to be first female chairperson of NuPECC
Angela Bracco has been voted in as the chairperson-elect of the Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee (NuPECC), an Expert Committee of the European Science Foundation. Bracco, a member of NuPECC since 2007, will become the committee’s first female chairperson when she commences her three year term – taking over from Guenther Rosner – on 1 January next year.
Bracco, full professor of physics at the University of Milan, Italy, is a renowned expert in the field of nuclear structure. She has been the spokesperson of several experiments at a number of laboratories, including: Legnaro National Laboratories, Institut de Recherches Subatomiques, Grand Accélérateur National d’Ions Lourds, Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung, the Argonne National Laboratory and Stony Brook; and is the current president of Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare’s Nuclear Physics Board, CSN3.
