Meet the CERNies!

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… Read more: Samer Yammine

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.… Read more: Rama Calaga

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… Read more: Antonio Perin

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… Read more: Vincent Baglin

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… Read more: Dmitry Gudkov

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… Read more: Greg Daniluk

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… Read more: Chiara Bracco

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… Read more: Iñigo Lamas García

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,… Read more: Eva Gousiou

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… Read more: Javier Serrano

A sea wave can be perceived as a ripple that propagates between the atmosphere and the surface of the oceans. As it approaches the shore, it becomes not only something… Read more: Rogelio Tomás García

The word freedom is gaining weight and interest these days. It is a very common term, but it is not a well defined concept. Many people think that freedom is just doing… Read more: Roberto Rinaldesi

Pasolini, one of Michele’s favourite film directors, once said that “the best in life are the past, the present and the future”. Michele is clear about this. “If you do… Read more: Michele Martino

The poet and philosopher George Santayana believed that pleasure is the central aesthetic category and beauty is nothing more than “pleasure seen as the quality of a thing”. If pleasure… Read more: Thibaut Lefevre

We could ask “ondas do mar de Vigo” when was the last time they saw our friend Nuria, a welding engineer currently working at CERN. Nuria was born in the… Read more: Nuria Valverde

Sometimes, history or audiovisual studies are not too far away from engineering. Federico is a case in point. This mechanical engineer has been working at CERN for ten years now,… Read more: Federico Carra

Only a few people have tasted the atmosphere of the CERN control center, or called control room in short. Daniel, an applied physicist who has been working at CERN for… Read more: Daniel Wollmann

In a lost corner of the world, between mountains, is where Marta’s most peaceful place lies. A place of back to the reality, back to the basis, where she charges… Read more: Marta Bajko

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… Read more: Mar Capeáns

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… Read more: Michele Modena

In the centre of the capital. At the most crowded and congested spot in town, where people only know the rush and the sky is greyer. “Pongamos que hablo de… Read more: Mariam González

It is said that dinosaurs exist at CERN. Laure says it. She defines herself as one of them. She started working here in July 1986. Now, almost 35 years later, she is… Read more: Laure Esteveny

Ezio Todesco. Bologna, Italy. 1965. Ph. D. in Physics, in Mathematical Physics. Currently working at CERN. Living in Geneva, Switzerland. Synthetic is the way he likes things.  It was in… Read more: Ezio Todesco

There are no big dreams, says Francisco laughing. He has always been closer to the “down-to-earth” ones club than to the dreamers party. That is why it is so difficult… Read more: Francisco Sánchez Galán

Half German, half South African. Sabrina’s nationality belongs to the Germany of the philosophers, poets and musicians. Her birth, childhood and adolescence are based in Cape Town. She remembers the… Read more: Sabrina Riebe

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… Read more: Marcello Losasso

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… Read more: Rubén García Alía

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… Read more: João Oliveira

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… Read more: Paolo Fessia

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… Read more: Nacho Avilés Santillana

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,… Read more: Héctor García Gavela

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… Read more: Beatriz Ferreira