Connie Potter is a long-standing CERN staff member with a BSc (Hons) in International Studies.
She shares her work time between the CERN Communications group and the ATLAS experiment where her experience in conference and event organisation and immersion in a world of physicists have led to ground-breaking projects in science communication for CERN. Wanting to share the excitement of physics that she experienced in ATLAS with the general public, she created the CERN Festival Programme, taking science to new audiences at music and culture festivals.
This programme now reaches over 20000 people annually in several different countries.
Connie also founded the CERN Special Guest programme, welcoming the likes of Muse, Metallica and Jack White for special visits of CERN for an informal visit. She is also co-editor of a first of its type book for CERN : Collision – Stories from the Science of CERN.
In her free time, Connie runs the non-profit Swiss humanitarian association AidforAll (www.aidforall.ch), raising funds to supply aid for people in need around the world from a school in the poor suburbs of Kolkata to driving aid into Ukraine at the start of the war to buying accommodation containers for medical people having lost their homes in Turkey from the recent earthquake.
