Meet the exCERNies!

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… Read more: Heeral Bhatt

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… Read more: Juny Crespo

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… Read more: Carmen Morodo Testa

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… Read more: Noemí Carabán González

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… Read more: Pablo García Abia

“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… Read more: Jara Rodríguez Alonso

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,… Read more: Mathieu Baudin

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… Read more: Julio Lucas

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… Read more: Luis Álvarez-Gaumé

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… Read more: Miran Domajnko

Corinna’s backpack is full of dreams waiting to come true. The first of many? To finish writing her thesis. As soon as she defends it, she will close a chapter,… Read more: Corinna Martinella

During her last year of high school, Bea went to Durham (England) to improve her English during the summer. That experience completely changed her aspirations, and with them, the course… Read more: Beatriz del Valle Grande

From Fregenal, a small village located in Extremadura (Spain), Mercedes swapped the small hills and ravines of Sierra Morena for a place nearby the highest mountain range in Europe. She… Read more: Mercedes Rebollo

There are decisions in life that you do not think twice. Alberto, a potential pizzaiolo, felt it in 2003. After three years of silence, he decided to make a phone call… Read more: Alberto Schiappapietra

Aglobal pandemic has frozen Charly’s dream. This French civil engineer was supposed to go travelling with no expiration date, but because of the Coronavirus outbreak in March 2020 that dream… Read more: Charly Gasnier

Work in progress. This could be Paula’s current status. This could be anyone’s current status. The people that surround her, the ones that she admires and every new experience that… Read more: Paula Martínez Urios

Almost for two years, Paula, a restless and curious woman from Gijón, worked at CERN, that laboratory that keeps beauty hidden tens of meters underground. It was one the primal… Read more: Paula Álvarez López

Like Nietzsche, Blanca is a friend of the slowness. Now, from Madrid, she enjoys her own calm in the non-hegemony of the Fast & Furious. Life, like philology, demands above all to… Read more: Blanca Vázquez de Prada

When Elisa first met CERN, she was around one year old. She was born in a scientist family: her grandfather was a pharmacist and her father works as a physicist.… Read more: Elisa García-Tabarés

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,… Read more: Miguel Mendes

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… Read more: Paula Freijedo Menéndez