Before joining CERN, Lucie studied physics at the beautiful old Dutch towns of Leiden and Amsterdam, obtaining her PhD on a LEAR experiment in 1986. She then joined UA2 as a CERN fellow, developing its scintillating fibre tracker with image intensifier and CCD readout. As a staff member she contributed to the development of scintillating fibre calorimetry before joining the NOMAD neutrino experiment, of which she became the technical coordinator. Following a short involvement in CMS, she was appointed deputy department leader of the CERN PH (physics) department in 2004. In this role she was given the opportunity to coordinate a broad detector R&D programme within PH, and became involved in several EU-funded projects. From 2009 she initiated and coordinated the CLIC detector and physics study and was the spokesperson of the CLICdp collaboration from 2013 to 2017.
