CMS Awards 2025
The CMS Collaboration congratulates individuals who have made significant contributions across the experiment by offering a CMS Award.
By CMS Communications
The CMS Collaboration congratulates individuals who have made significant contributions across the experiment by offering a CMS Award.
These annual awards highlight the essential work done in detector operations, software development, data analysis, and overall collaboration efforts. The dedication of these members is key to the ongoing success and scientific output of the CMS experiment.
Within CMS, many colleagues make contributions that go beyond the already exceptional standard of work across the experiment. These contributions often happen behind the scenes, yet are essential to the success of our experiment. The CMS Awards exist to recognise and support the top per cent of these individuals. For early-career scientists in particular, such recognition plays a meaningful role in career development. But of course, the CMS Awards equally acknowledge exceptional and sustained efforts of senior members and all others whose work the collaboration holds in high regard.
– Freya Blekman and Ulrich Heintz, CMS Awards Committee chairs
Find the list of the winners below, and all of the photos of the ceremony here.
| Attila József Rádl | For his outstanding contributions to precision luminosity measurements during Runs 2 and 3, especially for deepening our understanding of beam-related effects. |
| Andrea Bocci | For long-standing contributions spanning many facets of the CMS High Level Trigger, enabling efficient GPU exploitation and driving the evolution of the online farm into a heterogeneous and distributed platform. |
| Marc Dobson | For his exceptional technical expertise and high professional standards, which he shares with the team he manages, ensuring that all CMS DAQ systems and the P5 Control Room operate flawlessly. |
| Garvita Agarwal | For her outstanding mentorship and community building. |
| Mattia Campana | For his important contributions to the ECAL data acquisition system and upgrade, particularly in the leadership of the ECAL test beam campaigns. |
| Giulia Lavizzari | For fundamental contributions in multiple aspects of the ECAL DAQ readiness for phase 2. |
| Federica De Riggi | For fundamental contributions to the ECAL data-taking and upgrade, particularly on the high voltage system, APD task force and testbeams. |
| Samuele Ronchi | For continuous significant work on the ECAL energy calibration for prompt and refined reconstruction as well as important studies of ECAL performance and laser response during Run 3. |
| Marta Tornago | For her many contributions and dedication to the ECAL operations and performance as ECAL Run Coordinator, for her crucial role in the ECAL laser relocation and in the Upgrade, as well as for the communication with wonderful drawings of CMS. |
| Niramay Gogate | For his outstanding contributions to HCAL prompt feedback and detector performance groups in Run 3, especially in-depth studies of HCAL pulse shape and timing. |
| Yildiray Komurcu | For his critical work of managing all the HCAL conditions and monitoring of radiation damage corrections. |
| Alexey Kalinin | For his sustained contributions to HCAL operations, leading the HCAL prompt feedback group, and development of data stability monitoring and certification tools. |
| Sindhu Murthy | For outstanding contributions to the silicon module assembly team of the HGCAL project, including the development of a local database for module assembly and implementing a gantry LabVIEW GUI. |
| Fabian Hummer | For his contributions to the firmware and software of the HGCAL scintillator tileboard system and his work establishing its integrated readout and validation in system tests. |
| Stavros Mallios | For his sustained contributions to the HGCAL back-end system over many years, including firmware development, hardware testing and deployment, and system-level testing. |
| Tina Vernon | For exceptional and extended support in logistics and procurement for HCAL, HGCAL and MTD, in particular for the procurement of Silicon Photomultipliers for the Phase-I HCAL upgrade and for Phase-II HGCAL and MTD upgrades. |
| Maciej Glowacki | For the crucial work in coordinating the developments of the ML-operations at the L1T, using the existing Run-3 AD ML triggers as a test bench for Phase-2 ML operations workflows. |
| Cristian Baldenegro | For his tireless work during the HI run to ensure that the data taking was successful and his help in providing high quality data, not only through his work on the L1T menu, but in understanding the L1T objects. |
| Chosila Sutantawibul | For innovative and sustained work on automated data quality monitoring (AutoDQM), including anomaly-detection algorithms and improved web interfaces for online and certification shifters. |
| Bryan Cardwell | For outstanding and sustained contributions to the assembly, testing, and commissioning of the Barrel Timing Layer of the MIP Timing Detector. |
| Giorgio Pizzati | For crucial contributions to the development of the MIP Timing Detector DAQ software. |
| Leonardo Lanteri | For essential contributions to sensor and system testing towards the optimization and validation of the Endcap Timing Layer of the CMS MIP Timing Detector. |
| Giulio Umoret | For outstanding contributions to the operation of the CMS DT detector, intense activity in the DT Phase-2 Upgrade and development of innovative tools within the DT DPG team. |
| Anders Barzdukas | For exceptional and sustained contributions to the development and production of the ODMB7/5 data acquisition electronics boards for the CMS Cathode Strip Chamber Phase-2 upgrade project. |
| Seulgi Kim | For outstanding contributions to the production and quality control of the GEM ME0 modules. |
| Andres Cabrera | For outstanding contributions as RPC Run Coordinator, ensuring the continuity and operability of the RPC detector throughout Run 3. |
| Devin Aebi | For outstanding contributions to the development of novel muon triggering capabilities for the HL-LHC. |
| Andrea Piccinelli | For his engagement in the workflow management selection process, extra effort on the investigations, and overall leadership in the Offline and Computing Data and Workflow Management Development over the past years. |
| Charis Kleio Koraka | For her effort on heterogeneous computing, from strategy toward integration of GPU based workflows into the Offline and Computing production environment. |
| Ralf Florian von Cube | For his effort and dedication to operate, maintain, and develop further the Global Pool of the Offline and Computing Submission Infrastructure. |
| Kirill Ivanov | For exceptional dedication and technical proficiency in offline sample production workflows, and for vital, proactive contributions to the success of CMS Simulation production operations. |
| Nurfikri Bin Norjoharuddeen | For exceptional commitment to JetMET data quality, advancing calorimeter calibration and reconstruction, collaborating closely with HCAL, and proactively addressing Run-3 challenges. |
| Roberto Seidita | For his continuous dedication and support to online monitoring operations during Run 3, his key role and visionary leadership in the transition of CMS Data Quality Monitoring from run-based to machine-learning based high-granularity data certification with developments of new automated anomaly-detection capabilities. |
| Simone Rossi Tisbeni | For his continuous effort in detector calibration workflow automation and infrastructure towards an improved prompt data quality in CMS. |
| Sitian Qian | For proactive contributions to generator configuration and simulation production, exemplary role in production coordination and innovative developments for monitoring and automation of sample production management. |
| Gueorgui Antchev | For his outstanding work over the past decade in ensuring the successful operation of the CMS Roman Pots (CMS-PPS), encompassing data taking, management of the evaporative cooling and DSS systems, coordination of tunnel activities, and oversight of technical services and front-end electronics design, all of which were essential to the success of CMS-PPS and to the preparation of the Phase-2 upgrade, including his current contributions to PPS2. |
| Tahir Javaid | For outstanding leadership in the management of CMS DQM operations, ensuring continuous shift coverage and reliable online monitoring for high-quality data taking during Run 3. |
| Angela Taliercio | For her dedication to the operation of the Strip Tracker of the CMS experiment. |
| Davide Zuolo | For his dedication to the operation of the Pixel detector of the CMS experiment. |
| Andromachi Tsirou | For her outstanding accomplishments in the field of Safety Controls for CMS and dedication to and tireless work on the present and future Tracker detectors. |
| Martin Delcourt | For his long-standing leadership in the Tracker Detector Performance Group and his outstanding contributions to Phase-2 Tracker instrumentation and beam tests. |
| Meutia Wulansatiti | For her dedication to pixel operations and her efforts to maintain excellent detector performance during difficult periods of data-taking. |
| Tomas Kello | For his outstanding leadership in the development of fully automated calibration workflows for Run 3 and Phase-2 Tracker alignment. |
| Cristiano Turrioni | For his invaluable contributions to the Phase-2 Tracker upgrade, including the development of the Phase-2 cabling system, the performance of extensive thermal simulation, and the optimization of Outer Tracker module assembly procedures. |
| Florian Damas | For outstanding leadership in the strategy, preparation, and operation of the Heavy-Ion trigger menus in Run-3, enabling the physics achievements of the CMS Heavy-Ion programme. |
| Patin Inkaew | For outstanding contributions to Run-3 Jet/MET triggers and HLT scouting, and for developing the NanoScouting format enabling advanced physics analyses with scouting data. |
| Daina Leyva Pernia | For outstanding leadership in STEAM and as AlCa Trigger Contact in Run-3, ensuring stable and reliable trigger performance for physics analyses. |
| Emilia Hansson | For the development and modernisation of TSG tools as web-based applications that greatly improve the efficiency and scope of trigger operations and menu management. |
| Sushrut Karmarkar, Pierre Rose, Eric Albert, Francois Boyer, Matthew Campbell, John Chang, Kevin Chang, Gasahn Chanikornpradit, Yuvraj Chauhan, Alfredo Colas Gullon, Benjamin Denos, Kristin Deweese, Axel Filenius, Bartosz Grygiel, Ethan Haynes, Marco Herbsommer, Ian Holda, Siddharth Pradeep Kumar, Juuso Lamppu, Samuel Langley-Hawthorne, Hannyi Lee, Felix Mengfei Li, Heather Martin, Francisco Perez Gomez, Guillermo Reales Gutierrez, Benjamin Pulver, Melissa Richardson, Mathew Sanford, Nicolas Siegrist, Pau Simpson Crusafon, Simon Snydersmith, Archie Sulaiman, Rahmah Saswiandear Trisolicha, Remus Vrancianu, Michael Wasem, Alexander Wells, Hannah White, Szymon Wlodarczyk, Lexing Xu, Xuli You, Antti Onnela, and Andreas Jung. | For their dedication, teamwork, and professionalism, which ensured the successful recovery of the carbon-composite BTL-Tracker Support Tube. |
Further resources
See all the photos from the awards ceremony here. This took place during the June 2026 CMS Week.
