agency
CERN
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is an intergovernmental organization based in Meyrin, near Geneva. It was founded in 1954 and operates the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator. It has 25 member states.
Director-General
Mark Thomson
Key facts
- convention ratified
- 29 September 1954source
- headquarters
- Meyrin, Geneva, Switzerlandsource
- staff (2024)
- 2,704 scientific, technical, and administrative staff memberssource
- Large Hadron Collider first start-up
- 10 September 2008source
- Director-General
- Mark Thomson, appointed director-general on 1 January 2026source
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