Rolf-Dieter Heuer took office on 1st January as the new Director- General of CERN. Find out about his view of the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for the organization:
» Read his interview in the CERN Bulletin
» Watch the video of his inaugural address to the CERN community
Geneva 12 December 2008. The CERN Council today thanked the Organization’s outgoing management, and welcomed in the new. It was an occasion to take stock of the achievements of the past five years and to look forward to the next.
Geneva, 5 December 2008. CERN today confirmed that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will restart in 2009. This news forms part of an updated report, published today, on the status of the LHC following a malfunction on 19 September.
Geneva, 21 October 2008. Swiss President Pascal Couchepin and French Prime Minister François Fillon were joined at CERN today by science ministers from CERN’s Member States and around the world to inaugurate the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most complex scientific instrument.