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About Fermilab’s Leadership Team Nigel Lockyer began his tenure as director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in September 2013. Under his leadership, Fermilab has realigned its mission with the recommendations of the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) report and has set a course for world leadership in neutrino research through the construction of the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility. An experimental particle physicist, Nigel spent six years at the helm of TRIUMF, Canada’s national laboratory for nuclear and particle physics, from 2007 to 2013. Nigel holds a Ph.D. in physics from The Ohio State University, is a fellow of the American Physical Society and received the society’s 2006 Panofsky Prize for his leading research on the bottom quark. Joseph Lykken is Fermilab’s deputy director. He oversees the research program of the laboratory, working with the Department of Energy and other key stakeholders to develop Fermilab’s scientific direction. A senior scientist at the laboratory, Joe worked in the Theory Department and is a member of the CMS experiment on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Joe received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has previously worked for the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics and the University of Chicago. Joe began his tenure at Fermilab in 2005. He is a former member of the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel and recently served on the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel, developing a road map for the next 20 years of U.S. particle physics. Timothy Meyer is Fermilab’s chief operating officer. As COO, he oversees the activities, functions and infrastructure that support the laboratory’s scientific program. He also serves as a liaison between Fermilab and the Department of Energy system. Tim came to the laboratory in 2014 after seven years as head of strategic planning and communication at TRIUMF, Canada’s national laboratory for particle and nuclear physics. Prior to his time there, Tim served as an expert in science and public policy at the U.S. National Academies in Washington, D.C., as a senior program officer at the Board on Physics and Astronomy. He earned his Ph.D. in experimental particle physics from Stanford University. Christopher Mossey is deputy director for the Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility. He manages all aspects of the LBNF project, the largest international DOE project ever hosted on U.S. soil. A retired and decorated rear admiral with the United States Navy, he has more than three decades of experience leading the design and construction of environmental and facility programs for the Department of the Navy. Chris previously served as the commander of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command. Chris holds a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Cornell University and a Master of Science in construction management from Stanford University. He also completed the Executive Management Program at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. Marcela Carena is Fermilab’s director of international relations and a theoretical physicist. She promotes contact and collaboration with the laboratory’s global partners, establishing new ties and maintaining existing relationships. She works with agencies here and abroad, including the United Nations, the U.S. State Department, the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation. She is also in regular contact with the directorate of the European laboratory CERN. Marcela holds a professorship at the University of Chicago. She is a fellow of the American Physical Society and is currently vice chair of the APS Division of Particles and Fields. She is also a recipient of an Alexander von Humboldt Research Award. Hema Ramamoorthi is chief of staff for the Office of the Director. She is responsible for all business related to the director’s mandate, with special emphasis on U.S. governmental and international relations. Hema holds a degree in electronics and instrumentation from Tamil Nadu College of Engineering in India. Before coming to Fermilab, she served for 10 years as social secretary for government relations to the Consul General for India in the Chicago office, where she was responsible for scheduling and logistics for diplomatic events at the Consulate General. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory / Kirk and Pine Street / P.O. Box 500 / Batavia, IL 60510 / 630.840.3000 / www.fnal.gov / [email protected] Managed by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science 2 Cynthia Conger is Fermilab’s chief financial officer. She is a certified public accountant and certified government financial manager. She obtained a bachelor’s degree in accountancy with highest honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was appointed Fermilab’s chief financial officer in 2006 after spending 16 years as an accountant for the laboratory. Prior to joining Fermilab, she was a senior manager at the accounting firm Ernst and Young and had annual assignments auditing Fortune 500 companies, small businesses and not-for-profit organizations, including the former contractor for Fermilab. Sergey Belomestnykh is Fermilab's chief technology officer. As CTO, he provides leadership in planning, directing and overseeing the activities of the Technical Division,and provides the lab’s technological and technical vision moving forward. He joined the laboratory in 2015. Prior to that he worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Cornell University and the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics. Sergey received his Ph.D. from the Budker Institute, is a fellow on the American Physical Society and received the 2015 IEEE Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Award for his achievements in the science and technology of radio-frequency and superconducting radio-frequency technology for particle accelerators. Regina A. Rameika is currently head of the Fermilab Neutrino Division and has been a staff scientist at Fermilab since 1986. She has been a leader in the development of the Fermilab neutrino oscillation program, including pioneering development of the MINOS, NOvA and DUNE long-baseline experiments and the MicroBooNE liquid-argon detector. She also served as the deputy head of the Research Division from 1992–96. Since 1993 her research has concentrated on measuring properties of neutrinos. In 2002 she was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society for her work on the DONUT experiment, which made the first direct observation of tau neutrino interactions. She has served on the HEPAP advisory panel. She earned her Ph.D. in 1982 from Rutgers University. Katie Yurkewicz is the assistant director for communications at Fermilab. She leads internal and external communications activities at the laboratory, ensuring that Fermilab communicates its mission, programs, projects and activities to employees, scientific users, residents of the local community, members of the media and the national public. Katie earned her Ph.D. in nuclear physics from Michigan State University, where she was awarded multiple distinguished graduate fellowships, and holds bachelor’s degrees in physics and dance from Smith College. Yurkewicz joined the Fermilab staff in 2005 as a science communicator and spent four years stationed at the CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, before returning to Illinois as communication director in January 2011. Michael Weis has served as the Fermi Site Office Manager for the Department of Energy since 2011. He is responsible for all operations, delivery of government approvals, real estate and landlord functions at Fermilab. He is currently focused on driving Fermilab’s transition from a large single-experiment laboratory to one with an integrated project focus, building the framework for the first multibillion dollar international megaphysics project hosted at a Department of Energy national laboratory, the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment. Mike previously served as senior advisor for operations with former Secretary of Energy Steven Chu in Washington, D.C. He also served as the site office manager at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington state. Giorgio Bellettini is a scientist at the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics and the University of Pisa and a guest scientist at Fermilab, where he is currently co-spokesperson for the CDF experiment. He was spokesperson of the Italian groups in the CDF collaboration for 20 years. He also conducted research on CERN’s Intersecting Storage Ring, where he and his colleagues made a major discovery related to proton-proton interactions. Giorgio has authored or co-authored more than 700 publications in refereed physics journals, including the discovery of the top quark at Fermilab. He has served as director of the INFN National Laboratories of Frascati and has been honored with the Prize for Physics of the Italian Minister for Science and Technology. He is an America Physical Society fellow and is recognized as a Commendatore of the Italian Republic. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory / Kirk and Pine Street / P.O. Box 500 / Batavia, IL 60510 / 630.840.3000 / www.fnal.gov / [email protected] Managed by Fermi Research Alliance, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science 3 Luciano Ristori is a Fermilab guest scientist who works on the CDF experiment, for which he served as co-spokesperson, and CERN’s CMS experiment, for which he is developing techniques for future detector upgrades. From 1999-2015, Luciano was INFN’s director of research. Prior to that, he was a scientist at CERN, at Scola Normale in Pisa and at the University of Catania. Among his many published papers are those on the discovery of the top quark and of B meson oscillations. In 2012, he was awarded by the President of the Italian Republic with the title “Cavaliere dell’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana” for his “activity in the field of science which contributes to the international prestige of Italy.” He was awarded the Panofsky Prize in 2009 with Aldo Menzione for his work on hadron colliders.