Knowing CERNies

Just over five years ago, Samer, an electrical engineer, became a HiLumier. Since then, he enjoys the delicate mix of human interaction and technical work at CERN. He is part of a team made up of people with very diverse...

Although sometimes it seems to us that everything has already been invented, this world still needs great inventors. Above all, women inventors who wish to improve our present. This is the dream of Heeral, a mechanical engineer who started working...

When Rama, a radiofrequency physicist working at CERN’s Beams Department, presses the rewind button, arrives in a childhood dream. “When I was a kid, I had this great dream of doing physics. I was determined to travel abroad to do it, something...

Einstein said that theory is sooner or later killed by experience. That experience with which Antonio, the current Deputy Workpackage Leader for Cryogenics for the HL-LHC project and the Head of the Engineering and Mechanical Support Section, would like to contribute to...

May 68 is an important date in the calendar of History. Seven weeks of civil unrest occurred throughout France. Also in the northwest of the country, in Normandie, one of the favorite places of impressionist painters such as Monet or...

He was in Paris with his wife when, without knowing it, he sketched out the future. It was 2007 and this was one of his first trips abroad. Dmitry, a mechanical project engineer, told his wife, “it would be nice,...

Time does not stop when you start reading this text. Even if you stop reading right now, time keeps moving forward. Time runs like a little child and as the Polish composer and virtuoso pianist,  Fryderyk Chopin, said “time is...

From time to time, aún arde Madrid en su memoria, as Porretas would sing. Madrid, the capital of the cats and the lighted nights, saw Ana born, enjoyed her teenage years and grew up as a woman. There she studied...