Salvatore Mele

Salvatore and his team facilitate CERN’s link with governments, research organizations and universities in over 60 countries. He also helps Brazil and Chile integrate as CERN’s latest Associate Member States. A PhD in experimental Particle Physics, he spent 15 years with CERN and Italy’s INFN measuring fundamental properties of matter and searching for new phenomena at earlier CERN experiments. As CERN’s first Head of Open Access, he built global partnerships for access to scientific publications, delivered digital library platforms and Open Data solutions. He was a founding director of ORCID.