Anadi Canepa has been elected the new CMS Spokesperson 2026 - 2028. Florencia Canelli will join Hafeez Hoorani as Deputy Spokesperson.
With more than 6000 scientists, engineers, technicians, administrators and students, CMS is one of the world’s largest scientific collaborations.
From the 1st of January 2026 to the 31st of August 2028, Anadi Canepa has the important role of representing the collaboration. Joining her as deputies are Hafeez Hoorani, who continues his role until 31st August 2026, and the newly appointed Florencia Canelli, also in office until 31st August 2028.
Previous Spokesperson Gautier Hamel de Monchenault left the position of Spokesperson early at the end of 2025 instead of August 2026 to become CERN Director of Research and Computing. The collaboration thanks him for his role and wishes him the best going forward.
Anadi Canepa (CMS Spokesperson 2026–2028) is a senior scientist at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. She began her research with the CDF experiment at the Tevatron, focusing on searches for new phenomena and the Higgs boson, and contributing to upgrades of the silicon tracker and trigger system (PhD, Purdue University, 2006). In 2008, she joined the ATLAS Collaboration as a board-appointed scientist at TRIUMF. During the experiment’s startup, she contributed to data taking and data preparation and went on to serve in several leadership roles, including convener of the SUSY EWK Physics Group and the Upgrade Physics Group.
In 2015, she became a scientist at Fermilab and joined the CMS Collaboration. At the laboratory, she led the CMS group—now the Collider Division within the Particle Physics Directorate—for six years. She also served as strategic planning leader for the Energy Frontier, scientific secretary of the Physics Advisory Committee, and Director of User Facilities and Experiments. Within the CMS Tracker organization, she was appointed OT Beam Tests and System Tests Coordinator and served as manager for Outer Tracker Electronics in the U.S. project. She was appointed CMS Deputy Spokesperson during Gautier Hamel de Monchenault’s term of office (2024–2025).
Her broader service includes membership on numerous national and international panels, chairing the Division of Particles and Fields of the Canadian Association of Physicists, and serving as the North American representative to the 2026 update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics.
Hafeez Hoorani (CMS Deputy Spokesperson 2024-2026) received his PhD in Physics (Experimental High-Energy Physics) from the DPNC, University of Geneva in 1996. He was part of the LEP experiment called L3, where he was responsible for the level 1 charge particle trigger. He worked in various areas of physics at LEP, such as jet fragmentation function, two-photon physics, W – physics, and Bose-Einstein Correlations in WW decays. He joined CMS in 1995 and, since then, has contributed to the muon system of CMS in various capacities, such as the RPC resource manager, Deputy System Manager Muon, and the Deputy Chair of the Collaboration. Hafeez is chairing the High-Luminosity CMS Reflection Group, which the CMS Collaboration Board formed. He has served as the team leader of the National Centre for Physics (NCP) team in CMS until 2021 and worked as the Director-General of NCP for seven years (2014 – 2021).
Florencia Canelli (CMS Deputy Spokesperson 2026–2028) is Professor of Physics at the University of Zurich. She began her research at the D0 experiment at the Tevatron (PhD, University of Rochester, 2003), where she measured the properties of the top quark. Her doctoral work received significant international recognition.
After postdoctoral work at UCLA on the CDF experiment, she was awarded the Wilson Fellowship at Fermilab and later joined the laboratory’s scientific staff. In 2008, she joined the University of Chicago as Assistant Professor and member of the ATLAS Collaboration at CERN, becoming Associate Professor in 2011. During this period, her scientific achievements were recognized with major international distinctions.
Since joining the University of Zurich and the CMS Collaboration in 2012, she has held leadership roles within CMS, including Convener of the Top Quark Physics Analysis Group (2018–2020), Physics Coordinator (2021–2023), and Switzerland’s representative on the CMS Management Board (2013–2021). Her group played a leading role in the Phase-I CMS pixel detector upgrade and is now a major contributor to the Tracker Endcap Pixel detector for the Phase-II upgrade at the HL-LHC.
She serves on national and international advisory panels and committees. She was a member of the Physics Advisory Committee to the Director of Fermilab (2017–2020), is the scientific delegate of Switzerland to the CERN Council, and served as member and Chair of the C11 Commission on Particles and Fields of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (2015–2024).