A major milestone has been reached in the construction of the ATLAS Inner Tracker (ITk), with the installation of the first nine production ‘petals’ of the ITk Strips Endcap at DESY in Germany.

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Hamamatsu Photonics K.K. was announced as the 2026 Industrial Award winner by the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations at a dedicated ceremony on 15 July 2026.

Claudia Gemme, researcher at INFN in Genova, has had a varied career with the ATLAS Collaboration. From her work on the construction and commissioning of the ATLAS Pixel detector, to a career in physics analysis and the ATLAS Publication Committee, she now leads a key upgrade of the ATLAS detector: the ATLAS Inner Tracker (ITk).