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The CERN Council has chosen British physicist Mark Thomson as the organization’s next director general. The formal appointment will take place during the December session of Council and Mark Thomson’s five-year term will begin on January 1, 2026.
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November 06, 2024 – 12.40pm
(Keystone-ATS) “Mark Thomson is a talented physicist, whose managerial experience will be valuable,” declared the current Director General of CERN, Fabiola Gianotti, quoted in a press release on Wednesday.
“I have worked with him on several occasions in the past, and I am sure he will make an excellent general manager. I will be happy to entrust him with the reins of this important position at the end of 2025,” she added.
Mark Thomson is currently Executive Chairman of the Science and Technology Facilities Council in the UK and holds a Chair in Experimental Particle Physics at the University of Cambridge. He spent much of his career at CERN, where he initially contributed to precision measurements of the W and Z bosons in the 1990s.
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