UK’s Cern candidate takes campaign to Geneva

Physicist Mark Thomson travels to Cern’s headquarters to make his case for the director-general role

The UK’s candidate to lead Cern, the European organisation for nuclear research, has taken his campaign to the organisation’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

Last month, the UK government nominated University of Cambridge particle physicist Mark Thomson to be the next director-general of Cern. If elected, he would replace Fabiola Gianotti, an Italian who took on the role in 2016.