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Summer Students 2019

Yens Killian Elskens

A few months ago I received an e-mail from someone I didn't know, who later turned out to be form the CERN HR department. I was in a hurry so I didn't read the subject and just opened it (as I was reminded here at CERN, generally this is not a good…

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Sarah Hallaj

My name is Sarah Hallaj and I am from Lebanon. My fascination with physics began very early on, and soon enough I learned about CERN and what fascinating and mind-blowing experiments were taking place in this organization. My eyes would twinkle with…

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Ardiana’s Journey at CERN

My name is Ardiana Bushi and I’m the first student from the youngest country in Europe, Kosovo, to become a part of CERN. Coming to CERN for me was not just about having a unique and interesting experience, it was also a chance to show other…

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Sara Ruiz Daza

I can only say that this internship has got my main straight. I am ready to continue my studies in particle physics and it is something I will enjoy. So, I did not want to miss the opportunity to thank all the friends I made, the people working on…

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Daniel Prelipcean

How not going to CERN made the difference! All the times I have visited the surroundings of Geneva before, everyone told me: “You have to visit CERN”, “It’s a must, especially since you study Physics”; but I said no: I will not go to CERN, not until…

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Ali Fele Paranj

Hello, My name is Ali Fele Paranj. during this summer I worked at the Antimatter factory, with the ALPHA group. With the help of my supervisor, Muhammed Sameed, I could manage and finish four different projects. Positrons beam simulation with COMSOL…

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Abhirikshma Nandi

In one word it was magical! Right from the moment I got the mail saying I was accepted to the very last day of my stay. I worked on discrete clustering for the CMS High Granularity calorimeter supervised by Felice Pantaleo and Marco Rovere.…

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Minhaj Uddin Ansari

I was one of the only two students from Pakistan selected for the CERN Summer Student Program and this was one of the greatest moments of my life. When I arrived at CERN on June, I was amazed to see the vastness of the facility and I was even more…

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Amine Riad Remache

Since this was technically my first time in Europe, a lot of things were totally new for me, but I really like the diversity of cultures that we have here at CERN and how everyone is so nice. Of course, the first thing that comes in mind when you…

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Alexander Digurov

During summer 2019 I had an extraordinary opportunity to visit CERN as a NMS Summer Student. It was an extremely interesting opportunity. I worked with Evgueni Tcherniaev in SFT group and it was quiet a challenge for me, because I never before…

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