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We are proud to share that the CMS Collaboration has announced the winners of the 2025 Young Researcher Prize. The awards were presented during CMS Week and recognise exceptional early-career researchers whose work has made significant contributions to the experiment and to particle physics.
Today, four outstanding scientists have been honoured for their creativity, leadership and sustained impact within CMS: Cécile Caillol, Elisabetta Manca, Mario Masciovecchio, and Jennifer Ngadiuba. The awards celebrate both scientific results and technical leadership — from precision measurements to advanced triggers and machine-learning tools that accelerate discovery.
The CMS Young Researcher Prize recognises early-career members of the collaboration who have delivered exceptional research, innovation or service that advances CMS’s scientific programme. It highlights those who combine strong scientific results with leadership in detector, software or analysis efforts — and who inspire the wider community through their work.
Cécile Caillol — CERN (PhD: Brussels)
Honoured for sustained contributions to beyond-standard-model (BSM) scalar searches and for precision work on Higgs → ττ measurements, Cécile has also played a leading role in the Level-1 trigger offline software group and produced several original analyses using Run-3 data. Her decade-long involvement with the Level-1 trigger and work on novel triggerless systems earned particular praise.
Elisabetta Manca — UCLA (PhD: Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
Recognised for key contributions to the precision W-boson mass measurement, Elisabetta led muon track reconstruction efforts, refined momentum-scale calibration to unprecedented precision, and developed a helicity-fit technique that strengthens model-independent measurements — work that helps open a window to new physics through precision.
Mario Masciovecchio — UC San Diego (PhD: ETH Zurich)
Mario was awarded for his leadership in dark-matter and SUSY searches, for developing pattern-recognition algorithms adapted to modern computing architectures, and for convening the SUSY group. His development work — including contributions to mkFit track reconstruction — has improved reconstruction speed and is helping CMS handle the demands of Run-3 and future high-luminosity data.
Jennifer Ngadiuba — Fermilab (PhD: Zurich)
Jennifer is recognised as a world leader in applying machine learning to real-time data analysis. Her work spans anomalous-jet searches, real-time anomaly detection in the Level-1 trigger, and convening the new CMS Machine Learning Group. She helped develop frameworks (such as hls4ml) that enable sub-microsecond ML inference on FPGAs, allowing CMS to search for the unexpected as collisions happen.
These awards highlight two intertwined truths of modern particle physics: breakthroughs come not only from clever analyses of data but also from advances in algorithms, software and detector systems. The 2025 winners exemplify how precision measurements, novel search strategies, and ultra-fast machine learning together expand our ability to probe the Standard Model and search for new physics.
The fact that the 2025 CMS Young Researcher Prize winners are dedicated to knowledge, creativity, and scientific advances makes us proud to be the ones that publish them in GlobalX Publications. Their passion is a lesson to us that true leadership starts with vision, purpose and the courage to change the situation.
Their success is not just a milestone of the CMS Collaboration but also an example that can be followed by the other generations of scholars who want to investigate the unknown and contribute to science and society.
