Today I got finally got the nice plaque for the 2022 ATLAS Outstanding Achievement Award I received earlier this year, for outstanding contributions to the ATLAS outreach activities.
ATLAS Award
Category Archives: CERN
ATLAS Visitor Centre
Earlier this month, I had the pleasure to present the new ATLAS Visitor Centre at the Lepton Photon 2021 conference. It’s been great and fun to lead this project and to propose and develop at lot of new content together with great people within the ATLAS Collaboration, the CERN exhibitions team and the design company Point Prod in Geneva. And it’s great to finally see it come to conclusion and open up to the public once visitors are allowed at CERN again.
From Quarks to Qubits
After more than sixteen years at the ATLAS experiment it seems to be time for a change, and for me that change is going from quarks to qubits, and from a mix of fundamental research, teaching and science communication to a full-time job working on public engagement and didactics for the recently founded Munich Quantum Valley.
German 360° ATLAS tour
I recently finally finished editing a shorter version of a 360° virtual tour to the ATLAS experiment in German (well, Berlin-German), which you can find on my YouTube channel.
The English versions, both the full tour and the short version, are still available on the ATLAS YouTube channel.
Big Bang on Tour
This summer, the Weltmaschine travelling exhibition “Urknall Unterwegs” (Big Bang on Tour) started its journey through Germany. With games and interactive information, especially a tour through the history of the universe, the portable module is a perfect introduction to the world of particle physics and shows why it and many other forms of basic research are so important for our society.
As you can see from the picture above the travelling exhibition/showcase features a special German version of the Particle Twister game I developed together with Katarina Anthony.