Dr. Sara Bolognesi won the EPS Emmy Noether Distinction for Women in Physics

September 14, 2021

Dr. Sara Bolognesi has been awarded the Summer 2021 Emmy Noether Distinction of the European Physical Society “For her development of the data analysis techniques that conclusively improved the sensitivity of the CERN-CMS experiment, thus allowing the discovery of the Higgs boson and the first measurement of its spin and parity.” Dr. Sara Bolognesi is member of the Institut de Recherche sur les lois Fondamentales de l’Univers – Institute of Research on the Fundamental laws of the Universe of the CEA (IRFU) – Commissariat aux Energies Atomiques et Alternatives (CEA), Saclay, France. 

Dr. Sara Bolognesi joined the T2K experiment in 2013 making instrumental contributions that lead to the first indication of possible CP violation in leptons in 2020. Dr. Sara Bolognesi is now the physics coordinator of the experiment. 

Dr. Sara Bolognesi acting on the valves of the gas system of the near detector (ND280) of T2K – image credit: Sara Bolognesi