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At CERN: Student (01/09/2017 - 31/08/2020), User (01/09/2020 - 31/08/2028)Now: Scientific Advisor at the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and InnovationAs a doctoral student, Francesca Stocker helped build the first large scale prototype of the neutrino flagship detectors DUNE at CERN. Today, she is helping secure support for the Organization's next major scientific endeavour.France

In our latest Look who we bumped into video, Oskari Wilman looks back on his journey from his time at CERN as a USER representing the Helsinki Institute of Physics to his current role as a Project Manager in nanotechnology, working with ALD tools.

From Technical Student at CERN to Product Owner af Danfoss Drives, Khurram Shahzad shares how his time at the Laboratory helped shape his professional journey. Watch our latest Look Who We Bumped Into interview, focused on our regional groups (in this case, Helsinki)

Returning to CERN after 11 years as a Fellow, his visit brought back a strong sense of nostalgia, as Andre Zanoni remembered the people, experiences and moments that shaped his time here. Looking back, he describes CERN as a “grounding stone” for his future, a place that gave him the foundations, perspective and experiences that continue to influence his career today.

On Thursday 24 September, CERN alumni gathered to launch the CERN Alumni Southern Sweden regional group - the first CERN Alumni group in Sweden.Arek and SlavaOrganised by two CERN alumni, Arek Gorzawski and Slava Grishin with the support of Big Science Sweden, the event brought together former colleagues, new connections and a shared enthusiasm for science. We were delighted to welcome Switzerland

Looking back on his time at CERN, Neville Burke recalls some of the memorable moments and people that shaped his experience at the Laboratory. Among his favourite memories is his supervisor drawing on a napkin, reminding him that “a lot of science is done on napkins.” He also shares the story of how Peter Higgs signed his thesis. Discover these stories and more in our latest Look Who We Bumped Int

At CERN: Associate (01/11/1999 - 29/02/2000) & (09/09/2008 - 09/09/2016)Other (13/03/2000 - 25/02/2001)Now: Freelance Science CommunicatorA random encounter with a physicist at a party led literature graduate Barbara Warmbein to CERN in 1999. More than two decades later, the science communicator, author and alumna reflects on how the Laboratory shaped her career, nurtured her passion for particle

From Business Analyst Trainee at CERN to Program Administrator in Continuous Education at ETH Zürich, Jutta Uusitalo shares how her time at the Laboratory helped shape her professional journey. Watch our latest Look Who We Bumped Into interview.

From CERN to the world: six Alumni, nine ventures and one shared mindsetEvery year on the 21st August, the World celebrates Entrepreneurship Day, a day for everyone who has turned an idea into something real. It's a day to honour the people who take a risk, build something new, and keep going even when the path isn't clear nor easy. On this day, we asked ourselves what happens when CERN Alumni tak

From his beginnings at CERN to Process Lead at Canonical and a thriving involvement in electronic music, Matteo Di Cosmo shares how his time at the Laboratory helped shape his professional journey. Watch our latest Look Who We Bumped Into interview.

From openlab Summer Student to Senior Strategy Expert in the Fintech industry, Sharad Agarwal shares how his time at the Laboratory helped shape his professional journey during his recent visit to CERN. Watch our latest Look who we bumped into interview.Did you know that one of the benefits of being part of the CERN Alumni Network is a facilitated way to return to CERN, as Sharad did, even with fa

From Summer Student to Cloud AI Engineer at Google, Alejandro Sanchez shares how his time at the Laboratory helped shape his professional journey. Watch our latest Look Who We Bumped Into interview.

At CERN: Summer Student 06/2025 - 08/2025Now: Electrical Engineering Student For many students around the world, working at CERN feels like a distant dream. For Yorgo Homsi, an Electrical Engineering student from Lebanon, that dream became reality.With one year left before completing his bachelor's degree, Yorgo joined CERN as a Summer Student and discovered much more than a professional opportuni

From openlab Summer Student to a career beyond CERN, Marco Barbone shares how his time at the Laboratory helped shape his professional journey. Watch our latest Look Who We Bumped Into interview, filmed during our recent visit to New York:

At CERN: Staff 1982 - 2013Now: RetiredWhen Lorenz Stampfli first arrived at CERN in 1982 as a young lawyer, surrounded by engineers and physicists, he found himself in a world far removed from the one he had imagined during his studies in law and international relations.“Normally, when you speak about CERN, you don’t think about law,” he says with a smile. “You think about science.”Born and raised

Did you know that one of the benefits of being a member of the CERN Alumni Network is the possibility to come back on site?Check out the next "Look Who We Bumped Into" video to hear what Thorsten and Jennifer Boeck have to say about their time at CERN, where they met, and their subsequent careers as an engineering manager and a teacher.

Did you know that one of the benefits of being a member of the CERN Alumni Network is the possibility to come back on site?Check out the next “Look Who We Bumped Into” video to see what Michel Delacolette said about his time at CERN as well as subsequest career in the fields of green investments, coaching and writing.

Moving from CERN to industry is a path many alumni have walked, but it's rarely straightforward. How do you make your research experience resonate with a recruiter? What belongs on your CV, and what doesn't? How do you prepare for interviews where no one has heard of ROOT or GEANT4?In this series, we ask alumni who have successfully made the transition to share what actually worked for them - prac

CERN Alum: Charles FormanAt CERN: STAFF, 1965 - 1998Today: Retiree A Leap into the UnknownCharles Forman was 26 years old when he answered an advertisement in The Scotsman newspaper that would quietly reshape the course of his life. At the time, he was completing a university degree in commerce and an accounting diploma in Edinburgh. Together with what he describes as “a very apprehensive wife and

This week, the CERN Alumni Relations Office welcomed its 12,000th member - an important milestone in the development of the Network, launched in June 2017. We are pleased to share that Marco Laucelli, CEO of Galeo, is our 12,000th member.Since its inception, the Office for Alumni Relations has worked to connect a growing global community of alumni with the Organization and its people, highlight th