In this month’s Outreach of the Month interview, we meet Venus Keys, one of the newest members of the IPPOG community and Ireland representative. With a strong interest in science communication, education, and public engagement, Venus brings fresh perspectives and enthusiasm to particle physics outreach.

The CERN & Society Foundation has officially launched TIMEPIX@school, a new educational initiative designed to bring advanced detector technology into classrooms around the world and provide students with direct access to hands-on scientific experimentation.

This month, we are pleased to introduce Marco Circella as our Outreacher of the Month. Based in Bari (Italy), Marco’s work in astroparticle physics has taken him across very different environments, from high-altitude experiments to deep-sea neutrino detectors in the Mediterranean.

With the beginning of 2026, IPPOG enters a new phase marked by continuity, renewal, and a strengthened Coordination Team (CT). Following an active and impactful 2025, these changes aim to support the growing scope of IPPOG activities and prepare the collaboration for an exciting year ahead.

There are people who don’t simply share science they illuminate it. Caroline is one of them. With a background in Mathematics and Physics for teaching, she found her path into outreach almost by chance, during her time as a student assistant at the DESY Schülerlabor. A single lecture about the IceCube experiment lit a spark that would define her career.