Electrical or Electronics Engineering

Pivotal in designing, developing, and maintaining the sophisticated systems that power our cutting-edge experiments.

Powering Innovation: The Pulse of CERN’s Discoveries

Electrical and Electronics Engineering is crucial in maintaining and advancing the systems that power our scientific instruments. We ensure reliability and precision of our electrical infrastructure and electronic systems, whether it’s designing power systems for particle accelerators, developing control systems for detectors, or ensuring the reliability of massive data acquisition networks.

 

Electrical and Electronics Engineering at CERN is vital for operating particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), designing high-precision detectors, and maintaining robust control systems. Our teams handle real-time data acquisition and power distribution, ensuring stable operations and accurate data collection. Our responsibilities and contributions are varied, such as design, implementation, testing, and maintenance of systems across diverse areas such as microelectronics, hardware, firmware, software, optoelectronic and photonic components, systems, low-voltage power and high-power electrical systems, cutting-edge superconducting magnet design, and the implementation of radiofrequency cavities. This work ensures that every component, from the smallest microchip to the largest superconducting magnet, operates seamlessly together, allowing us to push the boundaries of our understanding of the universe.

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Data Collection and Integration
Design and Development: We create and optimize electrical and electronic systems that power and control CERN's scientific equipment.
Data Analysis and Predictive Modelling
System Maintenance and Reliability: We ensure the continuous and precise operation of complex systems, from power supplies to data acquisition networks.
Monitoring and Control Systems
Innovation and Problem Solving: We pioneer new technologies and solve unique challenges to support CERN’s advanced research and experiments.
Project example

Revolutionizing Safety: CERN's Integration of Advanced Personnel Safety Systems

Key objective
  • Enhancing Safety Measures: Implement advanced safety protocols to protect personnel across all CERN facilities.
  • Improving System Reliability: Upgrade existing safety systems to minimize downtime and ensure continuous protection. Refurbish the Personnel Safety Systems of CERN accelerator facilities, reaching their end-of-life after 20 years of continuous operation.
  • Facilitating Seamless Integration: Incorporate state-of-the-art technology to allow for easy integration with future upgrades and expansions.
Impact
  • Increased Operational Efficiency: Reduced the risk of safety-related incidents, leading to smoother and more efficient operations.
  • Greater Compliance: Ensured that all safety measures meet the latest international standards and regulations.
  • Enhanced User Experience: Provided engineers and other personnel with more intuitive and responsive safety interfaces.
The way forward
  • Reduced Safety Incidents: Since the update, to maintain a reduced number of safety-related incidents, highlighting the effectiveness of the new systems.
  • Future-Ready Infrastructure: The new systems are designed to be scalable, ensuring that CERN can easily adapt to future technological advancements.
Conclusion
  • After 20 years, the Personal Safety Systems project will pave the way to ensuring safer conditions across all experiments.

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At peak consumption, CERN uses about 200 megawatts of power, which is about a third of the amount of energy used to feed the nearby city of Geneva in Switzerland.

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Applied Physics

Applied Physics

Applied Physics at CERN plays a vital role in transforming theoretical concepts into tangible technologies that drive both scientific discovery and practical innovation. From developing cutting-edge particle detectors to contributing to global medical advancements, CERN's applied physicists are at the forefront of technology that changes the world.

Civil Engineering

Civil Engineering

Creating an inspiring and welcoming environment for CERN's scientific community by managing and developing CERN's buildings and infrastructures.

Data Science & Data Analytics

Data Science & Data Analytics

Our Data Analytics and Data Science experts transform massive datasets from large physics experiments into valuable insights leveraging cutting-edge algorithms and computational tools to drive innovation across various fields.

Experimental Physics

Experimental Physics

CERN’s Experimental Physics challenges the limits of our understanding, transforming bold theories into high-energy collisions that reveal the universe’s deepest secrets. From designing experiments to analysing breakthrough data, our physicists push the boundaries of knowledge every day. Ready to turn theory into discovery?

Health, Safety and Environment

Health, Safety and Environment

Playing a pivotal role in ensuring the well-being of our people and the sustainability of our operations.

International Relations

International Relations

International Relations drive the Organization's strategy to build and maintain robust political, financial, and public support for CERN's scientific and societal missions.

Material and Surface Science

Material and Surface Science

Developing and maintaining advanced materials and surfaces essential for the optimal performance of particle accelerators.

Mathematics

Mathematics

Mathematics at CERN provides the essential language and tools that underpin theoretical models, data analysis, and algorithm development. From simulating high-energy collisions to optimizing detector performance, mathematical methods drive innovation across all areas of particle physics research.

Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering at CERN is crucial to advancing technology and enabling cutting-edge scientific discoveries. Our engineers design, build, and maintain sophisticated machinery, complex accelerator systems and experimental facilities that power some of the world’s most complex and impactful experiments.

Software Engineering and IT

Software Engineering and IT

Software is crucial to CERN's mission of producing particle beams for physics experiments, coordinating thousands of devices through a sophisticated accelerator control system. Our engineers and technicians develop software across all layers, from embedded real-time systems to micro-service-based backend servers and user interfaces. We leverage mainstream, open-source technologies such as Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Java, Python, and Kafka, ensuring our knowledge is broadly applicable beyond CERN.

Support Services (Finance, HR, Legal, Procurement)

Support Services (Finance, HR, Legal, Procurement)

Support Services at CERN ensure smooth operations across the Organization, from finance, logistics and legal expertise to human resources, administrative support and scientific information management, enabling our scientists to focus on groundbreaking research.

Theoretical Physics

Theoretical Physics

Theoretical physics at CERN explores the fundamental principles of particles and forces, providing the framework for understanding the universe at its most fundamental level. It transforms abstract concepts into testable predictions, ensuring that CERN remains at the cutting edge of discovery.

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