EPS’s Caterina Biscari to head synchrotron facility
Caterina Biscari is being appointed the director of the Laboratory of Synchrotron Light CELLS-ALBA, in Barcelona, it was announced on 13 July. Biscari, a researcher with the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, will begin her new duties from September this year. The ALBA laboratory – which has been in operation since March 2012 – uses synchrotron light for a wide variety of experiments.
An internationally renowned expert in particle accelerator technologies, Biscari has worked both at CERN, in Geneva, and the Centro Nazionale di Adroterapia Oncologica, in Pavia. Since 1999, she has been the head technologist at the INFN’s Frascati laboratory.
Biscari was a chair of the Accelerator Group of the European Physical Society [EPS]; in addition to now being a fellow – and executive committee member – of the EPS, Biscari is a member of the Large Hadron Collider’s Machine Advisory Committee. She has also sat on a number of scientific committees, including that of the Helmholtz Association.
