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THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY 22 an honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh. She is also a corresponding member of the Italian Academy of Sciences, foreign associate member of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States and of the French Academy of Sciences, honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy and foreign member of the Royal Society, London. Gianotti has worked on several CERN experiments, being involved in detector R&D and construction, software development, and data analysis. From March 2009 to February 2013 she held the elected position of project leader ("spokesperson") of the ATLAS experiment. e ATLAS Collaboration consists of 3,000 physicists from some 38 countries. On July 4, 2012, she presented the ATLAS results on the search for the Higgs boson in a historic seminar at CERN. is event marked the announcement of the discovery of the Higgs boson by the ATLAS and CMS experiments. Gianotti is the author or co-author of more than 550 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals. She has given more than forty invited plenary talks at the major international conferences in the field. She has been a member of several international committees, such as the Scientific Council of the CNRS (France), the Physics Advisory Committee of the Fermilab Laboratory (USA), the Council of the European Physical Society, the Scientific Council of the DESY Laboratory (Germany), the Scientific Advisory Committee of NIKHEF (Netherlands), and the Scientific Advisory Board of the UN Secretary- General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon. She received honorary doctoral degrees from the University of Uppsala, the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, McGill University (Montreal), University of Oslo, University of Edinburgh, University of Roma Tor Vergata, University of Chicago, and University of Naples. Gianotti was awarded the honour of "Cavaliere di Gran Croce dell'ordine al merito della Repubblica" by the Italian president. She received the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2013), the Enrico Fermi Prize of the Italian Physical Society (2013), the Medal of Honour of the Niels Bohr Institute (Copenhagen, 2013), and the Wilhelm Exner Medal (Vienna, 2017). SATURDAY, JANUARY 19 (CONTINUED)

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