Graduate student Ananya Rai from the Wright Lab Relativistic Heavy Ion Group (RHIG) was just elected as the junior representative to the Diversity Office of the ALICE Collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
The Diversity Office advises members of ALICE on diversity issues and promotes diversity initiatives within the collaboration and the broader CERN community. In her role as junior representative, Rai will represent the ~750 juniors in the ALICE collaboration.
Initiatives of the Diversity Office include coordinating ALICE Inclusive Leadership training, preparing and presenting demographic information, and welcoming newcomers to the collaboration.
Rai said, “I am excited to take on this role! It’s fun to be surrounded by a diverse group of people at ALICE. I look forward to helping make ALICE a welcome space for everyone so that we can work on cool physics together.”
Wright Lab congratulates Rai on this important ALICE collaboration role.