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Tell us a little about yourself and what brought you to CERN?Hi! I’m Beyda, and originally from Hatay, Türkiye. My ambition to work at CERN dates back to my high school years, which shaped my decision to pursue a technical and science-driven academic path in Physics Engineering. During my undergraduate studies, I had the opportunity […]

Tell us a little about yourself. What do you do at CERN today?I am a physics PhD student at CERN, currently finishing my research and writing my doctoral thesis. I started working at CERN in March 2023, and the nearly three years since then have gone by incredibly fast. My work revolves around the study of […]

Tell us a little about yourself… What do you do at CERN today? Hi, my name is Sarah. I’m 22 years old and from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where I study computer science for my bachelor’s degree. I’m currently working at CERN as an intern in the Experimental Physics department for the LHCb experiment. My role focuses […]

Tell us a little about yourself… What do you do at CERN today?I’m a data scientist at CERN’s MechLab, where I work on the FCC-ee Digital Twin to understand and predict the tiniest vibrational shifts in one of the most repeated assemblies of the 91-km Future Circular Collider. For my master’s thesis at CERN, I […]

Tell us a little about yourself and what brought you to CERN?  My name is Javier Presmanes Cardama, I am 27 years old, and I hold a master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence from the International University of Valencia (VIU).Since I was a child, I have always been a curious person with a strong desire to […]

Tell us a little about yourself… What do you do at CERN today?  After studying mathematics at university, I decided to take a leap of faith and apply for the CERN Doctoral Student Programme. To my own surprise (I had no background in physics let alone accelerator physics) I was accepted am now working in […]

The thought of thousands of scientists and engineers counting on you to fix an integral part of the collider so they can keep their research going is incredibly motivating and exciting

The main growth I have seen in myself is on a personal level. Simply through all the international experiences and the different people I got to meet during my time at CERN.