Anadi Canepa

Anadi Canepa is an Italian experimental particle physicist and the current spokesperson for the CMS collaboration at Fermilab. She was elected as a Fellow by the Division of Particles and Fields Fellowship of the American Physical Society. Her research in particle physics primarily focuses on electroweak symmetry breaking and the search for new phenomena.

Early life and education Born in Italy, Canepa completed her Laurea in 2000 at the University of Padova. She directly followed her Laurea with a Ph.D. in Particle Physics at Purdue University in 2006. She began her research at Purdue with the CDF (2000-2011) collaboration.

She joined Fermilab as a scientist in 2015 and has since held several leadership positions in the CMS collaboration. CMS is one of the two general detectors of the Large Hadron Collider located at CERN, which the collaboration leads at Fermilab.

At CMS, now known as the Collider Division within the Particle Physics Directorate, Canepa was appointed as the collaboration's spokesperson in 2026.

Research Anadi Canepa's research focuses on discovering new experimental particle phenomena and electroweak symmetry breaking and Higgs physics. Canepa will lead CMS in increasing particle collision rates with the High-Luminosity LHC, helping the collaboration in their pursuit of a deeper understanding of fundamentals. Her research in advanced tracking and trigger systems has contributed to particle accelerator research, along with her scientific publications. Selected publications A. Canepa, Searches for supersymmetry at the Large Hadron Collider, Reviews in Physics 4 100033 (2019).

A. Canepa, T. Han, X. Wang, The search for electroweakinos, Annual Review of Nuclear and Particle Science 70: 425-54 (2020).