By CMS Communications

The CMS Collaboration is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 CMS Awards, recognizing individuals who have made significant contributions across the experiment.

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. 

The CMS Awards recognize individuals whose key contributions to CMS, often made behind the scenes, are essential to the success of the experiment. The awards are designed to recognize and support the few percent of colleagues whose impact goes beyond the already outstanding work that is done. It goes without saying that these awards are an important part of the career development of our early-career scientists, acknowledging the sustained efforts of senior members, and everyone else whose work is deeply valued by the collaboration. - Freya Blekman and Ulrich Heintz, CMS Awards Committee chairs.

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Some of the award recipients photographed with the CMS Spokesperson Gautier Hamel de Monchenault. (Image: S. Hurst/ CERN)

Find all of the photos of the ceremony here.

These are the forty nine CMS members who were recognised for their remarkable contribution during 2024:
 

Valentina Avati

For leadership and outstanding contributions to the PPS project, debugging problems, and helping other teams operate the PPS detectors. 

Jin Wang

For remarkable contributions to the ECAL calibrations and outstanding leadership of the ECAL Detector Performance Group.

Carolina Marisol Aguilar Rivera

In recognition of substantial contributions to the CMS Muon iRPC chamber construction, performance testing with the test beam, and installation, checkout, and commissioning at UXC.

Leonardo Lunerti

For the key contribution in the development testing setup for the DT Phase-2 on-detector electronics.

Emyr Clement

For outstanding contributions as the Level-1 Trigger Phase-2 Tau/Jet/MET object group coordinator to the development and optimization of new performant algorithms for the Phase-2 Trigger upgrade.

Salvatore Costa

For his remarkable dedication to serving the Tracker project as resource and logistics manager.

Muhammad Hassan Ahmed

For outstanding work in maintaining and innovating the unified software base, and developing new, effective tools for operators to streamline production and reprocessing operations.

Rocco Ardino

For outstanding contributions to the development,  commissioning, and operation of the Level-1 Trigger Data Scouting system in Run 3, in particular in the area of the acquisition board firmware and data analysis.

Maria Cristina Arena

For her key role in the commissioning and optimization of the Muon gas recuperation systems. Her contributions have been crucial in reducing CMS GHG emissions.  

Lazar Cokic

For very important contributions to achieving a high performance, reduced cost, and maintainable common control system with maximized COT components.

Pedro José Fernández Manteca

For his commitment to the Muon Trigger, in particular for his contributions to the design and commissioning of the Muon Shower Trigger, and his work on the muon reconstruction at HLT during Run-3.

Matteo Migliorini

For outstanding contributions to the development, commissioning, and operation of the Level-1 Trigger Data Scouting system in Run-3, in particular in the area of online processing software and data analysis.

Michelangelo Pari

For outstanding contribution to the development and validation of the BRIL Phase-2 systems and the exemplary coordination of the BRIL Tracker activities.

Aroosha Pervaiz

For excellence in, dedication to, and leadership in the area of web services and security as well as a temporary Virtual Organization Coordinator during the challenging Linux upgrade transition.

Nebojsa Smiljkovic

For long and outstanding contributions to the engineering and integration of the CMS Detector.

Polyneikis Tzanis

For outstanding contributions to the online software of Phase II and his efforts to build a DAQ integration facility in Bat 904.

Alan Campbell

For lifetime contributions to the design, implementation, development, and maintenance of the servers that play a central role for control and monitoring of the HCAL front-end electronics.

Lakshmi Nair

For her outstanding achievements enabling the excellent alignment of the CMS tracker.

Kaori Maeshima

For her great and long term engagement in DQM shifts, managing the Remote Operation Center at FNAL, and overseeing and helping the whole group of Remote Operation Centers around the globe.

Daniel Noonan

For sustained leadership and key technical contributions to all stages of the ECON-T and ECON-D ASIC development, from specification to quality control testing.

Murtaza Safdari (FNAL)

For major contributions to the testing of MTD Endcap Timing Layer ETROC chips for the Phase-2 upgrade.

German Martinez

For critical and long-lasting contributions to the Hadron Calorimeter, especially to Detector Control and Safety Systems and the laser calibration systems.

Samadhan Kamble

For exceptional contributions in coordinating and optimizing the CMS Monte Carlo production.

Berkan Kaynak

For outstanding contributions characterizing and commissioning PPS timing and the new T2 detectors, test beams activities, and analyzing data performance. 

Braden Allmond

For his leading role in studying and improving the HLT performance of tau triggers in Run 3.

Dennis Roy

For outstanding leadership of HCAL Operations and significant technical contributions to the HCAL detector during Run 3.

Soohwan Lee

For his leading role in preparing and operating online the trigger menus for the Run-3 Heavy-Ion program.

Simona Palluotto (MIB)

For outstanding contributions to the optimization and performance validation of MTD Barrel Timing Layer sensors.

Charles Kapsiak

For the development of tools to model and manage the production of HGCAL and for the development of the front end "engine" board quality control tests.

Hannah Bossi

For major contributions to the refurbishment of the Zero Degree Calorimeter (ZDC) and streamlining of the ZDC software.

Muhammad Imran

For his exceptional work on Collaboration Management Tools helping CMS adopt the Glance system replacing iCMS.

Israr Israr

For outstanding contributions to the CSC operations, calibration, and electronics studies.

Carlos Vico Villalba

For essential contributions to the development of an automated production of the CMS core background Monte Carlo samples.

Simone Calzaferri

For dedicated contributions to understanding the behavior of the CMS GEM detector, both during the CMS data taking and through hardware testing in a dedicated magnet setup.

Thomas Reis

For outstanding contributions and leadership of the ECAL Detector Performance Group and innovative development of ECAL software.

Chiara Basile

For many outstanding contributions to the ECAL data taking during Run3, including the responsibility for the barrel high voltage system, detector on-call duties, and crystal calibrations.

Claudio Quaranta (Rome)

For critical contributions to the quality control of LYSO crystals for the MTD Barrel Timing Layer.

Francesco Orlandi

For leadership in the data taking and analysis of ECAL beam test campaigns, from experimental setup and DAQ debugging to developing an analysis framework and deriving final results for the energy and time resolution of the ECAL electronics for HL-LHC.

Pruthvi Suryadevara

For outstanding contributions to the CE geometry description in CMSSW.

Cecilia Borca

For significant contributions to the development, tests and integration of the upgraded ECAL electronics in laboratory setups and with beam-test data.

Samantha Abbott

For determination to establish an inclusive research environment for all of CMS, for consistently demonstrating remarkable courage in advocating for marginalized identities, for her leadership and vision of a better CMS. 

Emmanouil Vourliotis

For the development of a novel, highly-parallelized, tracking algorithm (Line Segment Tracking, LST) for the CMS Phase-2 upgrade, and for his leadership of the HLT-Upgrade group.

Joao Pedro Pinheiro

For outstanding contributions to the operation and upgrade program of the RPC detector.

Jonathan Samudio

For his important contributions in accelerating the Particle-Flow reconstruction at HLT using GPUs.

Samuel Bein

For leading and modernizing the CMS Fast Simulation application project.

Caterina Aruta

For exceptional work as Level-1 Trigger Run 3 Menu team coordinator and crucial contributions to creating and optimizing trigger menus for Run 3 data taking for the benefit of the CMS physics program at large. 

Grace Haza

For an exceptional record in the installation and commissioning of the pixel detector and a continuing commitment to its operations.

Itana Bubanja

For her deep competence and exemplary commitment in consistently undertaking DAQ shifts every year of Run 3

Francesco Romeo

For contributions to the Pixel Luminosity Telescope project and his meticulous care and leadership in the CMS precision luminosity determination.

 

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