In 1979, one of the most important science-fiction films, Alien, was released. It was in that year that Noemí, a videographer and photographer at CERN, was born. Sometimes she feels a bit like an alien, but who does not? Who can be considered normal? Who among us does not belong to the outsider category? In 2012, months before […]
There are essential things are invisible to the eye, and those things can be professions. But there are also other jobs that are dedicated to make those realities visible, to give voice to the voiceless. That is what good journalism is all about. The Uruguayan writer and journalist, Eduardo Galeano, said that “many small people, […]
Like all enthusiastic physics students, Moisés initiated a long-distance relationship with CERN. In its early years, it was a relationship through books, scientific magazines and classes at the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Galicia). Over the years, as with good wine, this relationship improved. Distances were reduced. Moisés was born in A Coruña, the one […]
It is said that when particle physicists hear beauty, they think about the bottom quark first. “It is just so beautiful”, ensures Pablo, a particle physicist currently working at CIEMAT, the Centre for Energy, Environmental and Technological Research, located in Madrid (Spain). Physics has an impressive aesthetic side for Pablo. Sometimes, aesthetic arguments play an important […]
“On my feet I wear two shoes for dancing, dancing to be free”. To the beat of Ska Jazz, Jara, a 24-year-old globetrotter, turns up the volume of Two Shoes, the song that she would recommend to anyone. Also on her feet, there is a pair of shoes that keep dancing. Jara is the eldest of […]
Only a few people have tasted the atmosphere of the CERN control center, or called control room in short. Daniel, an applied physicist who has been working at CERN for eleven years, knows it well. He has spent several nights shifts there, where “besides the experiment you are doing, you get to know the people […]
Etymologically speaking, Noelia teaches the science of life. She has been a biology and geology high school teacher for almost 15 years. Before that, she did her Ph.D. in immunology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, in early 2005. Noelia grew up with Carl Sagan’s personal voyage, Cosmos. This TV series left her fascinated by the […]
It was in her early days as a physics student at the University of Valencia (Spain), that she first heard about CERN. Since then, Maite, a former physics teacher born in the Basque Country, has maintained a very special relationship with this huge international lab. During her university years, Maite met José Bernabeu Alberola, a […]
In a lost corner of the world, between mountains, is where Marta’s most peaceful place lies. A place of back to the reality, back to the basis, where she charges her batteries. She was born in Gheorgheni (Romania), a small city located in eastern Transylvania, around 175 km from “Dracula’s Castle”. She spent her first […]
Instead of a rope stretched between animal and superman, as Nietzsche stated, Mathieu is a rope stretched between chemistry and engineering. Halfway between the lab and the office. For several years, he has been jumping from one discipline to another, trying to bring them together. Mathieu was born in the city of Cortázar’s Rayuela, in the stage […]