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 backgrounds, something that has helped him grow personally and professionally, and that also keeps him […]
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 that for others was not well seen. I cannot justify now if travelling so far […]
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 the advancement of knowledge or the well-being of people. “To feel that with the work […]
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 Renoir, was filled at that time with demonstrations and strikes. Both references have in common […]
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, one day, to come to Europe to work”. She laughed then, but less than a […]
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 the best way to check who is the wisest and most patient instructor”, since it […]
Being a physicist in the 21st century is not bad at all. Especially if you work at CERN. This is the case with Chiara, who became a CERNie 15 years ago. She is delighted with the place and time she is in, but, if it were possible, she would be interested in spending some time […]
It was in the Galleria degli Uffizi, just in front of the Botticelli’s Primavera that Iñigo, a full-time evolving human being and part-time industrial engineer, felt the beauty. He was looking at Flora, the goddess of flowers, at her smile, her hair and the details of her clothes, when he realized that even static things […]
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 […]