New CEO for CERN: Dr. Fabiola Gianotti will replace Rolf Heuer.

The President of the Israeli National Academy of Sciences, Prof. Ruth Arnon, today congratulated Prof. Fabiola Janotti on her election, thanked the outgoing CEO, and noted the close relationship between Israel and Sarn

The Council of CERN - the European Center for Nuclear Research, which operates the largest particle accelerator in the world, announced the appointment of Dr. Fabiola Giannotti as the organization's next CEO. The appointment will become formal at the council plenary in December, Dr. Giannotti will assume her position on January 1, 2016 and will serve a term that will last five years. She will replace Rolf Hoyer in her position.

"We were impressed by all three candidates who reached the final stages at the hands of the search committee" says the president of the council, Anieska Zalavska. "It was Giannotti's vision for the future of CERN and her deep knowledge of experimental particle physics that made us choose her."

"Fabiola Giannotti is an excellent choice as my replacement," says CERN's current CEO Rolf Heuer. We will work together throughout 2015 and I am sure that CERN is in good hands."

"It is a great honor and a great responsibility to be chosen as CEO of CERN and to step into the shoes of 15 excellent managers" says Giannotti. "Cern is a center of scientific excellence and a source of gaba and inspiration for physicists from all over the world. Saran is also the cradle of technologies and innovation, a source of knowledge and education and a prominent example of global cooperation and peace. The combination of all four of these assets makes Seren a unique place that creates better scientists and better people. I will maintain Saran excellence in all these directions. I thank everyone and the members of the Saran Council, the employees and users from all over the world."

Giannotti was the leader of the Atlas experiment from 2009-2013, the period in which the discovery of the Higgs boson was recognized after the Nobel Prize was awarded to François Engler and Peter Hicks in 2013. She is a member of many international committees and has received prestigious awards. She will also be the first woman to hold the position of CEO of CERN.

The President of the Israel National Academy of Sciences, Prof. Ruth Arnon, today congratulated the election of Prof. Fabiola Gianotti as the Director General of the CERN organization (starting in 2016).
Prof. Arnon thanked the current CEO, Prof. Rolf Hoyer, who during his tenure Israel was accepted as a full member of the organization (in January 2014) and noted the close cooperation and long-standing friendship with him.

President Arnon also said: "I warmly congratulate Prof. Fabiola Genotti, an important and well-known scientist who is certain that she will continue to lead the organization to more important scientific achievements in the years to come, even after the discovery of the particle known as the 'Higgs'.

Israel has been a partner in European scientific activity for many years and contributes significantly to the advancement of research conducted in the accelerator at CERN; The Academy represents and accompanies the groups of scientists through the National High Energy Academy Committee, headed by Prof. Eliezer Rabinowitz, which provides guidance and support for their outstanding activity.

Israel and dozens of its scientists active at CERN will continue to contribute and help during the next tenure of Prof. Genotti - both in promoting the research goals and in the policy that CERN has engraved on its banner in its 60 years of existence: 'Science for Peace,'" said Prof. Arnon.

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