Maltese PhD student helps oversee final moments of Large Hadron Collider

A young Maltese scientist helped operate the world’s largest particle accelerator during its final days before it was switched off for a major upgrade. Maria Aquilina, a 26-year-old University of Malta PhD student based at CERN, was part of an international team carrying out some of the last measurements on the Large Hadron Collider. “It was the honour