Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Experienced Event Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the research industry. Event Producer of science based content for the general public. Innovator - taking science to new audiences through the media of music, art and entertainment in general. Skilled in Event Management, Public Speaking, English, French, Spanish. Strong operations professional with a Bachelor of Science BSc with honours focused in International Relations with French. Also President and co-founder of the Swiss association aidforall.ch helping those in need worldwide. Historically helping communities and individuals in Vietnam, Kolkata and Luang Prabang, more recently in Poland and Ukraine
The Big Bang Collective, comprised of Connie Potter from CERN, Roger Jones from Lancaster University and Chris Thomas from Iowa State University, has been created to facilitate ventures in science communication to reach new audiences. The concept of taking physics to festivals in a fun, engaging way, with a diverse range of exciting talks, live links to extraordinary people and places over the world and hands-on workshops with real scientists, first trialled at WOMAD in 2016, has had such success and the demand for new partnerships is such that the Big Bang Collective, made up of the three key founding individuals, has been formed. Collaborations for 2019 include WOMAD2019, where we are now officially a 'WORLD', Roskilde Festival 2019 and Colours of Ostrava 2019.
Co-producer of the award-winning film 'A Day With Particles' 2020/2021 Producer of online/virtual physics programmes for outreach to the general public (during the pandemic, World of Physics at WOMAD@Home 2020, General public programme at ICHEP2020) Found and manager CERN Special Guests programme (Metallica, Jack White, Kings of Leon, Patti Smith, Muse, Bastille, Arcade Fire, The Pixies, The Script...) Producer and Manager of Science Pavilions at Roskilde Music Festival 2019, Pohoda Music Festival 2019 and The Melting Pot at Colours of Ostrava Music Festival 2019. Producer and Manager, World of Physics at WOMAD Festival, UK. Reach approx. 6100 people Co-organiser inaugural Big Bang Science Fair @ Waterfire Festival, Providence, R.I. Based on the WOMAD concept, taking science to a one day culture and music festival Managing and co-ordinating initiatives to reach new audiences 'going to where the people are' taking physics to non-traditional venues such as festivals : CERN ATLAS @ Moogfest2017, CERN @ New Scientist 2017, CERN @ Bluedot Festival 2016 Reaching new audiences in new ways.
- Organisation and responsibility for all public and in-house events for the ATLAS Collaboration (3000 members from over 170 worldwide institutes) : Open Days (over 5000 visitors), Anniversary Events, Scientific outreach events, in-house festivities - Co-ordination of VIP visits to the ATLAS Experiment (Heads of State, CEOs, Institutional directors, deans, provosts, Media) - liaise with Diplomatic office and government offices - Organisation of, and responsibility for, conferences: in-house and abroad (market research venue, management budget, team training etc.) - Creation and production of experiment's public merchandise (tshirts, hats, pins, etc.) (market research, graphic design collaboration etc.)