Although sometimes it seems to us that everything has already been invented, this world still needs great inventors. Above all, women inventors who wish to improve our present. This is the dream of Heeral, a mechanical engineer who started working at CERN eight months ago. “I want to be an inventor and create better solutions […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]