CERN Accelerating science

Moises Barbera Ramos

At High School I used to listen my teacher talk about subatomic particles and how all physicists go to this amazing place called CERN to do their researches and experiments to find out more about the universe around us.

That's why when I could visit that place during the 2013 open days I felt so amazed by everything around me, despite only been there for 1 day I already knew I wanted to work and be grow there. In 2014, the International Conference for High Energy Physics (ICHEP) took place in my country, Spain, and as soon as I realised the, now former, director general of CERN Rolf-Heuer, was going to be there I didn't hesitate to write him a letter and then wait for three days in a row, at the entrance of the venue where this conference was taking place, to bump into him, expect him to recognise me as the 16 year old that wrote him a letter, to tell him how much I enjoyed visiting his organisation while expressing how much I would work to get a place there.

This summer, years after my dream of been a physicist at CERN started, I have accomplished it.