What child has not dreamed of a tree hut, of building her own shelter? Mar, a Particle Physicist and the Upgrade Technical Coordinator of the CMS experiment, did not only fantasize about architecture as a child. Now she does it too, because “it is the architect’s dream to make the house. Not a house, but the house”, […]
He was just 26 years old when he was given almost 300 meters of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. Now, from the space-time distance, Julio thinks about it and finds it incredible. It really is. That young electrical engineer, borned and raised in Donostia, where the wind […]
String theory soon became his lifelong companion. And, along with it, ignorance, which Luis, a theoretical physicist, learned to live with long ago. Maybe that is why he is not worried about not knowing the answer to who are you. At 65, Luis is the director of the Simon Center for Geometry and Physics (SCGP), in Stony Brook […]
Aparty corridor is an elongated and special place where there is always a good mood. A place in which, from Monday to Friday, the coffee machine does not rest. It is also where Miran’s best memories at CERN are based. Miran is currently living in Ljubljana (Slovenia), where Brane Mozetič, a poet and the director of […]
The word polymathy refers to wisdom that encompasses knowledge about various fields of science, art or the humanities. A polymath is an individual whose knowledge spans a significant number of subjects. Michele is one of them. The term was expressed by León Battista Alberti, an Italian Renaissance architect who died in 1472 in Rome, where 488 years later, Michele […]
Corinna’s backpack is full of dreams waiting to come true. The first of many? To finish writing her thesis. As soon as she defends it, she will close a chapter, a very special one. Corinna first came to CERN in 2015 as a Technical Student. She had studied a Bachelor’s Degree in Biomedical Engineering at […]
During her last year of high school, Bea went to Durham (England) to improve her English during the summer. That experience completely changed her aspirations, and with them, the course of her life. Bea, who was born in Plasencia and grew up between that “Perla del Valle del Jerte” in the north of Extremadura and […]
e says he has seen things which that child from Orcasitas would not believe. The point of the CMS detector where Higgs bosons are created, for example. The moment when tens of teachers listened excited to the Spanish experimental physicist, Pablo García Abia, one of the thousands scientists who discovered the Higgs, saying: “We made […]
From Fregenal, a small village located in Extremadura (Spain), Mercedes swapped the small hills and ravines of Sierra Morena for a place nearby the highest mountain range in Europe. She also changed the short walking distances of Seville for the daily bike rides from Ferney-Voltaire, where she used to live, to CERN. On her way […]
There are decisions in life that you do not think twice. Alberto, a potential pizzaiolo, felt it in 2003. After three years of silence, he decided to make a phone call that would change his whole life. Born on the shores of the Mediterranean, in the small Varigotti, Alberto is currently living in Bolivia. He works […]