CMS Guides:
CLAIRE LEE
Claire is a South African particle physicist working for the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermilab, studying the basic particles and forces that make up our universe. She completed her PhD on the ATLAS Experiment, one of the large multipurpose experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), in Geneva Switzerland.
She is now a member of the CMS Collaboration, working on the day-to-day operation of the CMS detector, as well as on the communications teams for CMS and Fermilab.
She is an experienced public speaker and has been invited to speak at places such as the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris and the UN offices in Geneva, and at events such as TEDx and New Scientist Live. She was diagnosed with ADHD in 2022, and has been amazed at how much more sense the universe makes, ever since.
SONIA NATALE
Sonia studied Physics at the University of Rome « La Sapienza » and is CERN based since her Bachelor’s Degree. She spent one year at Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne (EPFL) and then she moved to the University of Geneva - DPNC, obtaining her PhD in Particle Physics.
She is a physics researcher, and is an expert in experimental astro-particle physics, silicon detectors and related laser devices. She contributed to the construction and commissioning of the AMS-02 experiment on the NASA International Space Station during her research activity at CERN (UniGe, RWTH, MIT).
She is also a scientific communication speaker involved in several CERN public outreach events and CERN focused programmes (National and International Teachers Training Programmes, National and International Masterclasses, Laboratory sessions as S’Cool Lab). She is a member of several juries and selection committees for Physics competitions for students (CERN BL4S, SYPT, IYPT) and for teachers (CERN « I vostri successi »). Currently involved in the organisation of the first Science and Communication Hackathon event at CERN being part of the organisation Committee.
CMS virtual visits technical experts:
Noemi Beni
Zoltan Szillasi
Zoltan and Noemi, physicists, PhD in particle physics
During the last 20 years, they have been working for Hardware Muon Barrel Alignment System and Fiber Optical Sensing System at CMS
Their big hobby has been the CMS Virtual visits since the beginning.
