Professor Zalewska elected President of CERN Council
The 20 September 2012, CERN Council elected Agnieszka Zalewska as its 21st President. She will follow Michel Spiro, whose 3-year term will end at the end of December.
“I feel particularly honoured to have presided over the CERN Council through a period that has seen the first major results from the Large hadron Collider [LHC],” said Michel Spiro. “I’d like to wish Professor Zalewska all the very best as the LHC adventure continues to unfold.”
Agnieszka Zalewska is a Professor at the H. Niewodniczański Institute of High Energy Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. She has a distinguished career in particle physics and a long association with CERN. She worked on the DELPHI experiment, where she played an important role in the development of silicon tracking detectors. Since 2000, she has been involved with neutrino physics through the ICARUS experiment at Italy’s Gran Sasso National Laboratory and has also been involved with feasibility studies for an underground laboratory in Poland.
“The coming years will be fascinating, but demanding, as we prepare the LHC for running at higher energies and implement the updated European Strategy for Particle Physics,” said Agnieszka Zalewska. “CERN and its Council will become my only priority, and I would like to thank the Council members and outgoing President for the confidence they have placed in me.”
