All Eva’s summers have the taste of an island in the Aegean Sea. Both her childhood and grown-up summers take place in Lesbos, the homeland of the archaic Greek poet, Sappho. But Eva, an electronics engineer focused on data transmission technologies, was born on the other shore of the Aegean. Athens saw her grow. She […]
If people were synonymous, Javier’s would be knowledge sharing. Since 1998, he has been at CERN, where he leads the Hardware and Timing section of the Beams control room. He works in the domain of particle accelerators controls, together with people who are mainly involved in electronic design and low-level software development, most of the […]
A sea wave can be perceived as a ripple that propagates between the atmosphere and the surface of the oceans. As it approaches the shore, it becomes not only something to jump over, but a phenomenon to study: a seesaw with a vertical and a longitudinal component. A sea wave can be a beautiful thing […]
The word freedom is gaining weight and interest these days. It is a very common term, but it is not a well defined concept. Many people think that freedom is just doing what you want. Roberto, a mechanical engineer who has been working at CERN for eight years, does not agree. “That is not really freedom. To […]
Pasolini, one of Michele’s favourite film directors, once said that “the best in life are the past, the present and the future”. Michele is clear about this. “If you do not live with your mind in the past, the past only enriches you. And if you do not worry too much about the future, that […]
The poet and philosopher George Santayana believed that pleasure is the central aesthetic category and beauty is nothing more than “pleasure seen as the quality of a thing”. If pleasure is relative, each of us will experience it differently. There is a group of people who live in wonder at being able to describe and […]
We could ask “ondas do mar de Vigo” when was the last time they saw our friend Nuria, a welding engineer currently working at CERN. Nuria was born in the proletarian city of Vigo, located in the Galician Rias Baixas. She grew up with maritime sounds in the background: first, with the Atlantic Ocean and […]
Sometimes, history or audiovisual studies are not too far away from engineering. Federico is a case in point. This mechanical engineer has been working at CERN for ten years now, but his attention and interests go beyond the boundaries of science. Federico studied mechanical engineering at Politecnico di Torino, about 60 kilometres from Ivrea, his […]
Some around-the-world journey last only 80 days. Luckily, others forget the rush and extend up to almost a year and a half. Juny, a former Project Manager at CERN, decided together with his wife Mónica, who is now also an exCERNie, to travel all over the world. Europe, Central America, Latin and North America and […]
Beauty not only has its own focus, but also its moment in time. Its here and now. This is how Carmen, a Senior Business Analyst working at the ESA Estates and Facilities Management Department, perceives beauty. “It is the result of our stubborn human determination to push the limits of the possible”, she ensures. Beauty as a product of our […]