On Dec. 10, the Italian magazine D La Repubblica named Anna Grassellino, scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, as “Woman of the Year.” Grassellino was selected from a list of 50 excellent Italian women in different fields who left an impression on 2020.

She is the director of the new Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center based at Fermilab. The SQMS Center has the ambitious goal of building and deploying a beyond-state-of-the-art quantum computer over the next five years as part of an international collaborative effort involving 20 partner institutions including the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN).