ALICE warmly congratulates Barbara Erazmus on her appointment to the rank of Officer of the French Legion of Honour, France's highest national distinction for outstanding service to the nation.
Barbara Erazmus, Research Director at CNRS and Deputy Chair of NuPECC, and former Deputy Spokesperson of ALICE, received the insignia during a ceremony held on 26 May in Préfecture de Nantes. The distinction was bestowed by Michel Spiro, former President of the CERN Council, outgoing President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP), and President of the Curie and Joliot-Curie Association, in the presence of Christelle Roy, Director of CNRS Nuclear and Particle Physics, the National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (IN2P3), and Pol-Bernard Gossiaux, Director of the Subatech laboratory.
The ceremony was attended by former ALICE Spokespersons Luciano Musa and Federico Antinori, colleagues from SUBATECH, and members of the wider scientific community.
This promotion from Chevalier (Knight) to Officer recognises Barbara’s outstanding contributions to science, her leadership within the nuclear-physics community, and her long-standing commitment to international scientific collaboration.
We extend our sincere congratulations to Barbara on this well-deserved honour.