The 2016 ATLAS Outstanding Achievement Awards ceremony was held at CERN on 20 October. Now in its third year, the awards recognise excellent contributions made to the collaboration, with an emphasis on this occasion on activities carried out in the first year of Run 2.

“There are a lot of excellent, hard-working people in ATLAS, as displayed by the quality and quantity of the nominations we received,” said Stephen Haywood, Chair of the selection committee. “As such, the committee had to make many hard choices, as we tried to pick out the ‘outstanding’ from all the excellent work nominated.”

As in previous years, nominations came from across the collaboration, in areas such as technical coordination and detector systems, as well as activities including upgrade, combined performance and outreach. The Collaboration Board Chair Advisory Group examined each of the 62 nominations to make their final selections.

The first to receive their awards were Marcello Bindi (University of Göttingen), Laura Jeanty (Berkeley National Laboratory), Kerstin Lantzsch (University of Bonn), Karolos Potamianos (Berkeley National Laboratory) and Yosuke Takubo (KEK). They were rewarded for their outstanding contributions to the successful commissioning and operation of the Pixel Detector for the start-up of Run 2.

Learn more about the awards and other winners here.