What are the various ways to work for CERN?

Thanks for the A2A @Mohan Dev Sukumar. I joined 2 months ago as a Technical Student so my knowledge on this is still a bit limited, I'll try to give the best explanation from my very short experience. I will also complement my answer with inform... read more

Generally work on these projects is not done on-site at CERN (although my friends have been there several times as part of their work), but it is a way to get your"foot in the door" as we say. read more

An accelerator comes either in the form of a ring (a circular accelerator), where a beam of particles travels repeatedly round a loop, or in a straight line (a linear accelerator), where the particle beam travels from one end to the other. At CERN a number of accelerators are joined together in sequence to reach successively higher energies. read more

Meet mostly young people, feel the international vibe, flexible hours, 30 days of leave per year not including christmas and other public holidays(!), interesting discussions with scientists and engineers, do networking with people from all over the world, good place if you are interested in different cultures and physics. read more