CMS Welcomes New Management For 2026-2028

With more than 6000 scientists, engineers, technicians, administrators and students, CMS is one of the world's largest scientific collaborations. From 1 January 2026 to 31 August 2028, Anadi Canepa has the important role of representing the Collaboration as its Spokesperson. Joining her as deputies are Hafeez Hoorani, who continues in his present role until 31 August 2026, and the newly appointed Florencia Canelli, who will remain in office until 31 August 2028.

Previous Spokesperson Gautier Hamel de Monchenault left the role early, at the end of 2025 instead of in August 2026, to become CERN's Director for Research and Computing. The Collaboration thanks him for his work on its behalf and wishes him all the best going forward.

Anadi Canepa is a senior scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab). She began her research with the CDF experiment at the Tevatron, focusing on searches for new phenomena and the Higgs boson and contributing to upgrades of the silicon tracker and trigger system (PhD, Purdue University, 2006). In 2015, she became a scientist at Fermilab and joined the CMS Collaboration. She was appointed CMS Deputy Spokesperson during Gautier Hamel de Monchenault's term of office (2024-2025).

Hafeez Hoorani received his PhD in Experimental High-Energy Physics from the DPNC, University of Geneva, in 1996. He was part of the L3 experiment at LEP, where he was responsible for the level 1 charge particle trigger. He joined CMS in 1995 and, since then, has contributed to its muon system in various capacities.

Florencia Canelli is Professor of Physics at the University of Zurich. She began her research at the D0 experiment at the Tevatron (PhD, University of Rochester, 2003), where she measured the properties of the top quark. Since joining the University of Zurich and CMS in 2012, she has held several leadership roles within the Collaboration.