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Matthew is the editor of the CERN Courier. He joined CERN in May 2016.
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The European Strategy for Particle Physics, which is due to be updated by May 2020, will guide the direction of the field to the mid-2020s and beyond
The world’s first Big Science Business Forum gathered 18 of the most advanced big-science organisations together to meet European companies