CERN Alumni Weekly News | Joint Alumni & ATLAS Job Fair at CERN, Mentoring, CERN & KIT Alumni evening, Vienna, Copenhagen and Space Group launch, LHC heat reuse, CMS detector milestone, and future collider options
THIS WEEK’S DIGEST AT A GLANCE
⦁ Careers: Joint Alumni & ATLAS Job Fair at CERN
⦁ Mentoring: Programme open year-round for mentors and mentees
⦁ Networking & Groups: CERN & KIT Alumni evening, Vienna, Copenhagen and Space Group launch
⦁ From CERN & beyond: LHC heat reuse, CMS detector milestone, and future collider options
CAREERS
Joint Alumni & ATLAS Job Fair — 18 February, CERN
Are you exploring your next move beyond CERN or wondering how your skills translate into industry, research, or technology-driven organisations? The ATLAS Collaboration Week Job Fair offers a focused opportunity to meet employers who value the experience and problem-solving mindset developed at CERN: https://alumni.cern/events/199901
MENTORING
Mentoring — All Year Round
Mentoring Month may be over, but the CERN Alumni Mentoring Programme continues year-round. You can take part as a mentor or mentee at any time and build valuable one-to-one professional connections: https://alumni.cern/page/mentoring-hub
NETWORKING & GROUPS
Joint CERN Alumni & KIT Alumni Event — 19 February, CERN
An evening bringing together CERN and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology alumni and professionals based in the region. A great opportunity to expand your cross-institutional network: https://alumni.cern/events/200965
⦁ Vienna — 10 February
Visit Blue Planet Ecosystems, a Vienna-based start-up combining biology, engineering and IT to develop sustainable aquaculture systems: https://alumni.cern/events/201179
⦁ Copenhagen — 13 February
Group visit to the European Spallation Source (ESS) with CERN Alumni Copenhagen: https://alumni.cern/events/199794
⦁ CERN Alumni Space Group Launch — 19 February
Join the launch event featuring a talk by Rubén García Alía on the HEARTS project, meet space-sector enthusiasts and discuss the latest industry developments: https://alumni.cern/events/202760
The HEARTS project aims to improve Europe’s capacity to reproduce cosmic radiation conditions using accelerator-based experiments, supporting advances in space electronics, shielding and radiobiology — with long-term benefits for communication, navigation, environmental monitoring and space exploration.
FROM CERN & THE WORLD OF HIGH-ENERGY PHYSICS
⦁ Heating homes with the world’s largest particle accelerator
A new heat-exchange system now reuses warm water from part of the LHC cooling system to heat homes and businesses in the local area: https://home.cern/news/news/cern/heating-homes-worlds-largest-particle-accelerator
⦁ Groundbreaking CMS calorimeter for the High-Luminosity LHC
CMS has completed the first prototype slice of its High-Granularity Calorimeter — set to become the largest silicon-based detector ever built: https://home.cern/news/news/experiments/groundbreaking-cms-calorimeter-high-luminosity-lhc
⦁ Seven colliders for CERN
A working group report compares seven proposals for CERN’s next large-scale collider: https://cerncourier.com/a/seven-colliders-for-cern/