Pauline Gagnon
writer and science communicator
Pauline Gagnon is a particle physicist who went to CERN in 1995 first to work on the OPAL experiment, then the ATLAS experiment as a senior research scientist at Indiana University, working mostly on dark matter searches. In 2011, she joined the CERN Communication group and became CERN official blogger until she left in 2014 to write the popular science book Who Cares About Particle Physics: Making Sense of the Higgs Boson, the Large Hadron Collider and CERN. It will be released by Oxford University Press in July 2016. The book is already available in French and is being translated in Farsi in Iran. Over the past three years, she has given more than 60 public talks in particle physics at CERN, in Canada, France, Scotland, Tunisia, Germany and onboard a cruise for Scientific American.
