The CMS collaboration welcomes its tenth management team: the new spokesperson, Gautier Hamel de Monchenault, and the two deputies, Hafeez Hoorani and Anadi Canepa. They will be representing CMS over the next two years (2024-2026).
With more than 6000 scientists, engineers, technicians, administrators, including 2000 students, from 252 institutes across over 50 countries, CMS is one of the world’s largest scientific collaborations.
From today, September 1st, until 31st August 2026, the important role of representing the CMS collaboration will be served by Gautier Hamel de Monchenault, Anadi Canepa and Hafeez Hoorani, the tenth Spokesperson team of the CMS experiment since signing the letter of intent just over 30 years ago.
The next two years will represent a unique time in the history of CMS with the confluence of detector operations, analysis of unprecedented proton-proton and heavy-ion collision datasets, and the ambitious upgrade of the detector in preparation for the High Luminosity phase of the LHC. Thanks to an exceptionally versatile particle physics detector and the ingenuity and creativity of a diverse collaboration, CMS continues to address the most fundamental particle physics questions, including advancing research into the Higgs boson. In order to achieve this, CMS will continue pushing the boundaries of technology and breaking paradigms in data processing and analysis.
Gautier Hamel de Monchenault (CMS 2024-2026 spokesperson) is a physicist at CEA Paris-Saclay in France. Gautier carried out his PhD as part of the DELPHI experiment at LEP, searching for the Higgs boson. In 1992, he joined the newly formed BABAR collaboration and contributed to the design, construction and commissioning of the DIRC particle identification system. As a visiting scientist at Berkeley Lab in 1996-1998, he joined the core team responsible for the simulation, reconstruction and physics analysis software. In 2000-2001, he was BABAR Physics Analysis Coordinator at the time of the observation of CP violation in the B-meson system. Recently, he headed the particle physics department (IRFU/DPhP) at CEA Paris-Saclay (2016-2020). Gautier was a member of the SPS committee at CERN (2002-2005) and has participated in several international committees. He is now a member of the High Energy Physics board of the European Physical Society. A CMS collaborator since 2006, Gautier contributed to the online software of the ECAL laser monitoring system. He was co-convenor of the electroweak physics analysis group in 2010-2011, chairman of the publications committee in 2014-2015 and deputy spokesperson during Luca Malgeri's term of office in 2020-2022.
Anadi Canepa (CMS Deputy Spokesperson 2024-2026) is a senior scientist at the Fermi National Laboratory. She began her research in the CDF experiment focusing on searches for new phenomena (PhD 2006, Purdue University) and for the Higgs boson as well as on upgrades of the silicon tracker and trigger system. She joined the ATLAS Collaboration in 2008 as a board-appointed scientist at TRIUMF. During the startup of the experiment, she contributed to data taking and data preparation and then served in several leadership positions including convener of the SUSY EWK Group Physics Upgrade Group. In 2015, she joined the CMS Collaboration in the Tracker group, was appointed as OT Beam Tests & System Tests Coordinator and selected as manager for Outer Tracker Electronics in the U.S. project. For the last six years, she was the head of the Fermilab CMS group. At the laboratory, she also served as strategic planning leader for the energy frontier, scientific secretary for the Physics Advisory Committee, and as Director of Users Facilities and Experiments. Anadi has been involved in several international committees and served as chair of the Division of Particles and Fields of the Canadian Physical Society.
Hafeez Hoorani (CMS Deputy Spokesperson 2024-2026) received his PhD in Physics (Experimental High-Energy Physics) from the DPNC, University of Geneva in 1996. He was part of the LEP experiment called L3, where he was responsible for the level 1 charge particle trigger. He worked in various areas of physics at LEP, such as jet fragmentation function, two-photon physics, W – physics, and Bose-Einstein Correlations in WW decays. He joined CMS in 1995 and, since then, has contributed to the muon system of CMS in various capacities, such as the RPC resource manager, Deputy System Manager Muon, and the Deputy Chair of the Collaboration. Hafeez is chairing the High-Luminosity CMS Reflection Group, which the CMS Collaboration Board formed. He has served as the team leader of the National Centre for Physics (NCP) team in CMS until 2021 and worked as the Director-General of NCP for seven years (2014 – 2021).
The CMS collaboration thanks the outgoing spokes team: Spokes Person Patricia McBride, and deputies Lucia Silvestris & Wolfgang Adam for their incredible work representing the CMS collaboration over 2022-2024.
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