Venus Keus. Image: DIAS
‘People are so much more complicated than physics,’ says Venus Keus.
A few weeks ago, I sat down to speak with Venus Keus, a scientific associate at the European Organization for Nuclear Research’s (CERN), and found out I may have had the building blocks of a physicist in me all along.
“As a kid, I was just really, really curious and a bit ‘big-headed’ – maybe stubborn,” Keus tells me. They always wanted to get to the bottom of everything. “You know, those three-year-old – five-year-old kids who always ask ‘why?’ I think I must have been [an] irritating version of those.”
Keus loves what they do. “I have the best job in the world. I just think about stuff,” they tell me, laughing. They also love to talk about what they do, a rare trait in people that spend much of their time alone, wondering about things that may have never been pondered before.
