The winter 2018 EPS Emmy Noether Distinction goes to Chiara Mariotti
It is a great pleasure to announce that the Winter 2018 EPS Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics goes to Dr. Chiara Mariotti from INFN, Italy, and CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
The distinction is awarded to Chiara Mariotti for her outstanding contributions to the discovery and characterisation of the Higgs boson, for her leading role as founder and coordinator of the LHC-wide Higgs Cross Section Working Group, and for her impressive capacities and achievements in outreach, in particular towards the young generation of physicists.
Dr. Mariotti made seminal discoveries for the characterisation of the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of CERN. She assumed a leading role as founder and coordinator of the Higgs Cross Section working group, bringing experimentalists and theorists together to establish reference calculations for the Higgs production cross sections. She has been a leading scientist and a role model for generations of young physicists in Italy and at CERN, with top level responsibilities in physical analysis.
The EPS Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics is awarded twice a year (spring and autumn) by the EPS Equal Opportunities Committee. The distinction charter can be downloaded on the EPS website.
To put forward a candidate, please, email the following information to the EPS Secretariat.
A cover letter, detailing (in no more than three paragraphs) the case for the nominee:
- The nominee’s name, institution and email;
- The nominee’s résumé;
- The nominator’s name, institution, and email.
Read more about the distinction on the EPS website.
