CERN Accelerating science

Summer Students 2019

Minjae Kwon

My name is Minjae Kwon from South Korea, in detail, Busan and Masan, the south part. The work I envolved was analysis some data during the upgrade of detector setup in the ALICE Experiment.  

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Stephan Kunne

My name is Stephan Kunne and I come from France. I had the chance to spend a few months at CERN as a summer student, to follow lectures on physics, and to work on the worldwide computing grid for the ATLAS experiment. This was an exceptional…

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Kehang Bai

The first day I arrived at CERN, I was walking on crutches, painfully pretending I was enjoying my dream job. Without noticing, my twisted ankle has been healed, progress has been made in my project, and I have been to amazing places with my…

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Angèle Taillard

Hi all, My name is Angèle Taillard, and I somehow got selected for this incredible experience. Well in fact, I didn't know it would be THAT great. I was completely overwhelmed by work at uni when I received the mail, but I read a "Congratulations…

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Genevieve Hayes

My experience as a CERN summer student has been nothing short of incredible. The CERN atmosphere thrives on diversity, curiosity and creativity which was certainly embodied by the students and staff I met throughout the program. I began my summer at…

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Abdullatif Rashdan

Hi there! I am Abdullatif Rashdan from Bahrain. I am a senior student majoring in computer engineering at University of Bahrain. Being selected for this program and going through the entire experiment was the best experience I have ever had. The…

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Hobbs Willett

My story starts, long forgotten in the corner of a study room, where i find a pile of CERN summer project bookmarks. This is the only way i know such a thing even exists! My project was in using Spack for package management for experiment software…

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Eissa Alnasrallah

The first time I heard of CERN was 2012 when a colleague of mine went for the summer program. It happened to be the year they announce the Higgs Boson discovery.Since then, it became my dream to join CERN's summer program but it was never the right…

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Judita Beinortaite

A genuinely international community, a meaningful project and a chance to contribute to one of the biggest physics experiments in the world - I am thrilled to have been a part of this! And I could not be more grateful to my country for having…

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Lars Ludwig Hans Bathe-Peters

My name is Lars Bathe-Peters and I am a Master's student from Germany. I am very grateful that I got the chance to participate in the CERN Summer School. By being here I have learned a lot socially and academically, so I was very happy to be a…

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