End of contract...

My two year contract + extention as fellow at CERN in Switzerland has ended. I will remain with the ALICE SPD group at least until the end of the year, but as a (paid) unpaid associate. This position might change to a project associate later on. Since I came here I have mostly been working on test beam analysis, i.e. mainly programming in C++, but have also done some LabView work for the test beam DAQ system. At the moment I am working on new analysis methods for retrieving the intrinsic resolution of the SPD together with my collegue Jan. We will at least write an internal report on it, and perhaps it will lead a publication.

Well... That was the boring professional part! In my private life things are moving rapidly. On June 9, I got engaged with my Maria-Lucia, just before she went to Sri Lanka for one year to work with AIESEC, the largest student organization in the world. We are planning to get married next summer in Sweden. In just over two weeks from now we will meet in Germany, where she will go to a conference, and then we will drive to Sweden for a week of holiday. But before that, I will have some holiday in Spain for the wedding of my friends Mercedes and Alejandro. Other private news include a visit of my cousin Malin and Martin, and later also her parents Per and Kerstin.