CERN Accelerating science

Summer Students 2019

Lars Kolk

Since this was my first time going abroad for such a long time, I was a little nervous but also really excited. I mean, the thought of meeting so many people from all around the world and working on a really interesting scientific project at CERN…

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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…

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Zhyar Abdullah

CERN's summer student programme was like a dream came true for me, to be involved in an environment like CERN and I had an experience like nowhere on planet earth. I was the only one from Kurdistan/ Iraq, that made me so homesick at first. But…

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Kaitlyn Tia Liang

I am an undergraduate student entering my fourth and final year of my degree of Biomedical Physics at the University of Toronto Mississauga. I found out about the program from asking a professor to be my supervisor last year. Initially, I was quite…

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Gamal Amer

My name is Gamal Talal Amer and this is my brief experience of CERN. I am extremely happy that I got the opportunity to be part of this amazing programme. I had the chance to join and deal with CERN research teams and to work in a multidisciplinary…

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Kyungseop Yoon

'Of all the enthusiastic physics students in the world, why me?' As I look back at the amazing eight weeks I had at CERN, I still ask myself the same question. The people that I have met, the places I have been to, and the things which I have seen…

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Rebecca Taylor

Hi! I was the designer and initiator of the tshirts, (with help from the fantastic tshirt team!) I also organised weekly welcome sessions for all the incoming students on the weekend they arrived at CERN! I worked in BE-ABP-HSL on an electron-beam…

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Laura Elaine Bruce

This summer was one of the coolest experiences of my life. I spent 9 weeks at CERN as an NMS Summer Student, and it was unforgettable. I was first assigned my summer project, “Hunting for New Physics with Improved Tests of Lepton Flavor…

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Olivier Rousselle

What a summer I spent at CERN, with so nice and intelligent people in a stimulating atmosphere, working on a project of ATLAS, with great physics lectures and visits of detectors. In the place to be to understand the fundamental laws of nature. And…

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Rowina Caspary

My name is Rowina Caspary and I am a physics student from Germany. I did my Bachelor in Hamburg, then spent a year in Krakow and am now in Heidelberg. The CERN summer school is a wonderful experience that I will certainly never forget. I worked on a…

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