Mar Capeans, Cern’s New Director: “It’s Terrifying that We only Know 5% of the Universe”

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Mar Capeáns, PhD in physics born in Santiago de Compostela 58 years ago, is the new director of operations of the world’s largest particle physics laboratory, the European CERN. Her main role in this new position will be that “everything works wonderfully”, as she sums up. This is a great challenge when it comes to an institution that brings together 20,000 scientists from 110 countries, including staunch enemies such as Israel (which funds it),…