CERN Alumni Weekly News | Baptiste Teufel, Virtual Company Showroom with Dotphoton, SPS beam dump, North and East experimental areas of CERN, Ways to Get Involved

Published on May 9, 2022

This week we share the extraordinary journey of Baptiste Teufel from CERN to the Vatican. From working at CERN as a trainee, his unique career path led him to a position within the Swiss Guard at the Vatican. Read Baptiste’s story here: https://alumni.cern/news/741547

Registrations are now open for our upcoming Virtual Company Showroom with Dotphoton. Join us on the 13th of May for the opportunity to learn more about the company, find out what opportunities are currently open and to ask any questions you might have. Sign up for the event here: https://alumni.cern/events/82723

This spring, beams were circulated in the SPS for the first time this year. Find out more about the successful commissioning of the accelerator’s new beam dump: https://home.web.cern.ch/news/news/accelerators/sps-beam-dump

Take a tour of the North and East experimental areas of CERN in this CERN Courier article. Learn about their upcoming projects, how they enable precision tests of the Standard Model, detector R&D and much more: https://cerncourier.com/a/science-diversity-at-the-intensity-and-precision-frontiers/

Finally, we have three ways you can support the alumni network and get involved in the coming weeks:

  1.  Share your HIGGS@10 story and feature in our upcoming campaign: https://alumni.web.cern.ch/form/alumni-higgs-10-and-run3
  2.  Take part in the 50th CERN Relay Race on the 9th of June, in person or virtually in your own time. Contact us ([email protected]) for more information or to register and receive a prize for taking part.
  3.  Celebrate the 5th anniversary of the CERN Alumni Network on the 8th of June by sharing what the CERN Alumni Network means to you. Email ([email protected]) a short quote which we will pin to the CERN Alumni map and feature in our upcoming campaign. The first 50 respondents will receive a CERN Alumni gift.