Mechanical engineering student Fahad Al-Thani was awarded a place in a prestigious summer internship program at CERN in the Detector Technology Program in Switzerland for eight weeks. With funding from Qatar Foundation Research and Development, Al-Thani is the second Qatari student to travel to Switzerland for a CERN internship. The first Qatari student to go to
CERN was Abdulla Al-Suwaidi in summer 2015. Al-Thani said the first six weeks of the internship consisted of attending lectures centered on the future accelerators technologies, several workshops and testing Gas Electron Multiplier (GEM) detectors. He said he was excited to have received this unique training and research experience. Al-Thani is an undergraduate
researcher under the direction of Dr. Othmane Bouhali.
