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Every year approximately 1000 candidates apply for the CERN Summer Student Programme and only 150 candidates are selected. CERN is known for being the largest research organization in the world, so to share how amazing this life-changing experience will be, why not hear about the experiences of previous summer students and find out how participating in the CERN Summer Student Programme has changed

CERN Alumnus: Rex BrownAt CERN: 2011 & 2015 Summer Student & User with the ATLAS experimentToday: Research ScientistNow based in Santa Monica, California working at HRL Laboratories, Rex's first encounter with CERN was in 2011 as a summer student working on the ATLAS experiment. He then came back in 2015 to work on the ATLAS experiment as a graduate student. He then moved to Southern California an

Roman Zochling and friend enjoying mountain viewsCERN alumnus: Roman ZochlingAt CERN: CERN Summer Student 2016Today: Adviser for nuclear affairs at the Permanent Mission of Austria to the United NationsOAR: When did you come to CERN as a Summer Student and what did you work on?Roman : I came to CERN in summer 2016 to work on a project regarding the discharge characteristics of a class of detectors

Nihal Brahimi in front of The Globe of Science and Innovation visitor centreCERN alumna: Nihal BrahimiAt CERN: CERN Summer Student 2014Today: Post doctoral researcher in ATLASOAR: When did you come to CERN as a Summer Student and what did you work on?Nihal: I came to CERN as a summer student in June 2014. I did my two-months internship within the AEgIS group, which designed an experiment that woul

Nidhal, enjoy the beauty of the AlpsCERN alumnus: Nidhal BouguatefAt CERN: 2019 Summer StudentToday:Java full stack engineerOAR: When did you come to CERN as a Summer Student and what did you work on?Nidhal : It is almost a year since I came to CERN, but still feels like it was yesterday. During the 2 months’ internship, I worked on a web display for the ATLAS project. It centred on developing a p

Urban, right in the middle, with other summer students 2016CERN alumnus: Urban SenicaAt CERN: 2016 Summer StudentToday: PhD in Physics at ETH ZürichOAR: When did you come to CERN as a Summer Student and what did you work on?Urban: I first came to CERN in the Summer of 2016. I joined the EP-DT-DD: Solid State Detectors group which focuses on the development and characterization of radiation-hard se

CERN alumnus: Akashrup BanerjeeAt CERN: 2011 Summer StudentToday: Nuclear Scientist at GSIOAR: When did you come to CERN as a Summer Student and what did you work on?Akashrup: I was a part of the 2011 CERN Summer Student program. My project was related to the CMS group (with Dr. Archana Sharma), where I contributed towards building the Cosmic Muon Stand.OAR: What is your best memory of working at

Moises Barbera Ramos and the CMS DetectorCERN alumnus: Moises Barbera RamosAt CERN: 2019 Summer StudentToday: Master's student at the University of LiverpoolOAR: When did you come to CERN as a Summer Student and what did you work on?Moises: I started working at CERN the third week of June 2019, just a couple of days before my 21st birthday. I was welcomed into TE-ABT (Technology Department, Accele

CERN alumnus: Anirudha BoseAt CERN: 2015 Openlab Summer StudentToday: Software Engineer @ Ledger OAR: When did you come to CERN as a Summer Student and what did you work on?Anirudha: I interned at CERN as an Openlab Summer Student in 2015. I worked with the IT-DB team, on a scalable pipeline to ingest LHC data from the CMS experiment into CERN Hadoop clusters. We released our work as open-source s

CERN alumna: Nada AlghamdiAt CERN: 2019 Summer StudentToday: Incoming Physics Master's student for fall 2020 at EPFLOAR: When did you come to CERN as a Summer Student and what did you work on?Nada: I came to CERN in 2019 and I worked on the tile crack scintillators upgrade in the TileCal group. I helped in assembling the new crack scintillators, optimizing and running the strontium-90 scans to ass

A stimulating and challenging experience Stefano MarinaciAt CERN: 2014 Summer StudentToday: Ph.D. student working on a research project in collaboration with INTEL Corporation.OAR: When did you come to CERN as a Summer Student and what did you work on?Stefano: I came to CERN during the summer of 2014 for a 3-month internship, working in a multicultural team and assisting my supervisor in implement

Yara Al-QuorashyAt CERN: 2019 Summer StudentToday: MSc degree in Computing Science at the University of Glasgow, GlasgowOAR: When did you come to CERN as a Summer Student and what did you work on?Yara: June 16th, 2019, I was working at the LHCb experiment. As part of the project proposals regarding the LHCb upgrade in 2021, the LHCb collaboration was investigating the possibility to perform partia

CERN Alumna Nevatia Ritika (in the middle with the red hoodie)Nevatia RitikaAt CERN: 2015 Summer StudentToday: Software engineer for Apple in Seattle, USA.OAR: When did you come to CERN as a Summer Student and what did you work on?Ritika: I came in the summer of 2015 as a CERN openlab intern. I worked with IT-DB team on load balancing intelligently using modern tools and techniques. The large amou

CERN Alumnus Amitabh YadavAmitabh YadavAt CERN: 2017 Summer StudentToday: Research Associate at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in CaliforniaOAR: When did you come to CERN as a Summer Student and what did you work on?Amitabh: I came to CERN as a summer student in 2017 and I joined the ATLAS Inner Detector team to work on the development of back-end FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array)

Laia Subirats MateAt CERN: 2007 Summer StudentToday: Science researcher and lecturer in Barcelona, SpainOAR: When did you come to CERN as a Summer Student and what did you work on?Laia: I came to CERN in summer 2007. My work was to prepare, test and set up a complete computer environment consisting of web applications, desktop computers, servers, system and application programs, as well as network

Stuart MonteithAt CERN: 1996 Summer StudentToday: Software engineer in Cambridge, UKOAR: When did you come to CERN as a Summer Student and what did you work on?Stuart: I was in the class of 1996. I was assigned to work with the INFN Pisa group under Piero Giorgio Verdini. The group was working on silicon detectors for the CMS Collaboration. I produced software for  data acquisition on their experi

Adrian Navarro PerezAt CERN: 2019 Summer Student and Research ScientistToday: Master’s student in Gothenburg, Sweden OAR: When did you come to CERN as a Summer Student and what did you work on?Adrian: I first travelled to CERN on Saturday, June 8 of 2019, Monday, June 10, was the Whit Monday, regional holiday in the canton of Geneva, so I enjoyed fooling around and learning more about the area whe

Markus PflitschAt CERN: 1996 – 1997 Summer Student and Research ScientistToday: Founder and Chairman of Terra Quantum AG “I am a proud ambassador of CERN; it’s one of the greatest places on earth” declares Markus Pflitsch, whom I met, as is the current trend, via a popular video conferencing platform, during the COVID-19 confinement. As is the case for numerous CERN alumni, Markus’ first experienc