In 1998, Marcello came to CERN to stay only 6 months, as a project associated. But those 6 months became a whole career. So far, he has been working here for the last 20 and more years. Marcello is an applied physicist, who was born and raised in Salerno, located in the stunning Amalfi coast. […]
Sunsets in Portugal are special. They are different and they wrap Miguel’s thoughts if someone asks him about missing something, about saudade. This aerospace engineer was born and raised in Lisbon, but he spent a lot of time away from the capital. Both his parents come from the inside of Portugal, from rural areas located in […]
Although he was born in Zaragoza, the childhood and adolescence passport of Rubén, an experimental physicist enthusiastic about learning and progress, embraces lots of stamps from both Atlantic’s shores. How to consider yourself belonging to a certain place if your nature of globetrotting? Rubén was born the same year that Bruce Springsteen, a rock legend […]
The child that was afraid to forget any of his 60 cousins’ names. The child that saw his grandmother, always saving money for her loved ones’ future. That child was the first one, in the lifetime of the family, to attend university. That child is now a mechanical engineer who works at CERN. Grão a […]
Who am I? Paolo hesitates. This could be the last question of a person’s life. It is still too soon for him to answer it, but he tries. He feels himself a person eager to discover and to learn. This curious 49 years-old Italian engineer is motivated by the fact of seeing (in the broad sense […]
It has been nearly 10 years since Nacho landed at CERN and although, as he says, there are no Ikea instructions, he knew how to assemble all the furnitures at the first try. What started with a student scholarship has metamorphosed, with enthusiasm and determination, into an exemplary career. This industrial engineer’s roots are based […]
Like Chandler Bing, Phoebe Buffay or Ross Geller, no one told Paula life was gonna be this way. For whatever reason, fate brought this woman from Oviedo to the world’s largest particle physics laboratory. She left everything in Asturias, which saw her grow, train and reinvent herself. She grabbed her suitcase and she came alone […]
Like Fito & Fitipaldis, Héctor grew up near the tracks. That is why he also knows “que la tristeza y la alegría viajan en un mismo tren”. Fabero del Bierzo, a small mining town, which belongs to the Province of Leon, saw him grow, but Héctor’s sentimental passport has dual nationality. The Leonese one is […]
Among handcrafts, aircrafts and makeup, Beatriz combines the 25 pieces of her own puzzle. And, as Alamedadosoulna, a ska-reggae-soul group from Madrid, shouts in their concerts, she is so delighted to have met herself. Beatriz is an aerospace engineer. She studied at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) in Lisbon, about three hours and a half from […]