Pieter Everaerts
Lael Verace

Lael is a PhD student studying particle physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He grew up an hour away from Fermilab in Rockford, IL, before moving south to obtain a bachelor's degree in physics & applied mathematics from the University of Alabama. He is now based at CERN working in the Gas Electron Multiplier group contributing to the Phase 2 upgrade of the CMS muon detectors.
CMS virtual visits technical experts:
Noemi Beni
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Zoltan Szillasi
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Zoltan and Noemi, physicists, PhD in particle physics
During the last 20 years, they have been working for Hardware Muon Barrel Alignment System and Fiber Optical Sensing System at CMS
Their big hobby has been the CMS Virtual visits since the beginning.