On October 6, the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) will be officially inaugurated as an ERIC (European Research Infrastructure Consortium) in Padua, Italy.

The Swiss consortium attached to it is coordinated by Prof. Della Volpe, from the Department of Nuclear and Particle Physics of the Faculty of Science at UNIGE, and his deputy, Dr. Matthieu Heller. Until last summer, the CTAO-CH coordinator was Prof. Teresa Montaruli, also from UNIGE.

CTAO-CH is supported by the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) to the tune of CHF 12 million over 5 years.

• In addition to UNIGE, its members are EPFL, ETH Zurich, CSCS, UNIBE and UNIZH.