The physicist, the ballet dancer and the particles accelerator

Dr. David Salek said goodbye to his colleagues at the Max Planck's, to join ALBA, the particles accelerator at Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona. Many of his colleagues thought this was not a smart move, but his compatriots from the Weizman Institute had convinced him to join the Weizman's team studying the mechanisms of action of quinoline at ALBA.

Susana Dudaev's imagination had been captivated since she was a child by images of the Mediterranean Sea. When one of her former classmates from the Vagánova Ballet Academy told her about the opportunity to work at the Barcelona Ballet, Susana did not think twice and packed her bags.

That day, at the Chronos show, David Salek couldn't help but notice the blonde dancer who moved across the stage as lightly as a photon in the synchrotron. At the end of the show, Yegveny Shirkov, a colleague from ALBA, introduced him to Susana.

On Friday afternoons, David Salek would rush to Barcelona to see Susana. In her company his world lit up, because even though he still thought the universe was elusive, with her he had learned that thanks to art his particular universe could make sense.

08/04/2023