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Ana Suja

From time to time, aún arde Madrid en su memoria, as Porretas would sing. Madrid, the capital of the cats and the lighted nights, saw Ana born, enjoyed her teenage years and grew up as a woman. There she studied engineering in telecommunication technologies and services at the Universidad Politécnica. Also a master’s degree in […]

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Víctor Manuel González

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, […]

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Moisés López Caeiro

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 […]

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Noelia Sánchez

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 […]

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Maite Pelacho

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 […]

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Paco Barradas Solas

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 […]