CERN Alumni Weekly News | Barbara Storaci spotlight, Summer Students Gimme 5 - new series, CERN Finance Club invites alumni, 47th CERN School of Computing Latin America, antimatter breakthrough
As the UEFA Women’s EURO final takes place, one CERN alumna is contributing her skills behind the scenes. Barbara Storaci spent over a decade working at CERN before moving into project management at UEFA, where her analytical mindset continues to serve her well. “When you become a physicist, you will remain it for the rest of your life, but now I am so happy, I have new challenges, and I am learning things that by staying in the research field I would have probably not learnt.” In this candid and inspiring story, she shares how embracing challenge, staying true to herself, and taking a few bold risks (including a green CV) led to a fulfilling career beyond academia: https://alumni.cern/news/2744814
In our new series “Summer Students Gimme 5,” we ask CERN’s 2024 summer students where they will be in five years. The second episode is out now—meet Pedro Sviatopolk Mirsky Scaraz from Brazil and hear where he hopes the future will take him: https://alumni.cern/news/2744964
The CERN Finance Club invites alumni to a fascinating Zoom talk on 28 July at 18:30, where quant expert Alexis Yannakou from Citadel will explore how fractals shape probabilities in everything from solar flares to financial markets: https://alumni.cern/events/187404
Applications are now open for the 47th CERN School of Computing—and the first ever in Latin America—taking place 11–24 January 2026 in Santiago, Chile. Join students from around the world for two weeks of cutting-edge computing, physics, and unforgettable cultural experiences: https://alumni.cern/events/187478
In a major antimatter breakthrough, CERN’s BASE team kept an antiproton oscillating between quantum states for nearly a minute—marking the first antimatter qubit and opening new paths to compare matter and antimatter: https://https://home.web.cern.ch/news/news/physics/quantum-leap-antimatter-measurements
Quantum sensors have become important tools in low-energy particle physics. Michael Doser explores opportunities to exploit their unparalleled precision at higher energies: https://cerncourier.com/a/sensing-at-quantum-limits/