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Masako Yamada is the director of applications at quantum-computing company, IonQ
The defence and security company QinetiQ is looking for physicists and engineers who are keen to explore the properties of radio waves to solve wireless challenges and create novel...
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Carol Davenport on the “hard” and “soft” skill sets that are invaluable when it comes to your employability as a physicist
Sixth-form student Annabelle Gill discusses a week-long internship at CERN
From quantum technology to green jobs, Physics World Careers 2022 showcases the range of career options open to physicists
City University of Hong Kong’s undergraduate physics programme wants to attract ambitious international students as they take their next step towards a scientific career in resea...
Laura Hiscott speaks to Claire Houghton, an early-career physicist who did summer internships at Kurt J Lesker and Adaptix
The MYRRHA project in Belgium is seeking enthusiastic scientists, engineers and project managers with a talent for cross-disciplinary collaboration
Suman Shrestha, who is doing a PhD in medical physics in the US, on why he wants to return to Nepal with his new-found skills and expertise
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Clare Burrage is a cosmologist at the University of Nottingham, and winner of the 2023 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists in the UK in Physical Sciences and Engi...
Nicole Bell is a dark-matter physicist and the new president of the Australian Institute of Physics
Zahra Hussaini is a senior software reliability engineer at Waymo, an autonomous driving technology company that started as Google’s Self-Driving Car Project
Wen-fai Fong talks to Rob Lea about shaping the future of astronomy
A doctoral training centre in wind and marine energy aims to equip PhD students with the skills and knowledge needed to drive continuing expansion in the offshore renewables industry
Jessica James is managing director at Commerzbank AG in London, UK
Rafal Janik is the chief operating officer at the photonic quantum technology company Xanadu in Toronto, Canada
Mark Richards describes how his search for a community of fellow “quantum black dots” led him to found the Blackett Lab Family – the UK’s first national ne...
Joyful Mdhluli describes the joy that a career in physics brings, even after hitting rock bottom during her PhD
Janina Moereke is a development engineer who uses optical and electrical techniques to characterize and develop thin-film solar cells
Jenni Strabley is the senior director of offering management at Quantinuum
Sara Fry is the head of sustainability and of safety, health and environment at a multinational engineering solutions company
Nicholas Attree is a postdoctoral researcher studying comets through the European Space Agency’s Rosetta and Comet Interceptor missions
Petrophysicist Oliver Grimston talks about his career at British oil and gas company bp, from its graduate programme to his current role as the firm’s chief of s...
From studying physics to making documentary films, with his latest being Coup 53, about the 1953 coup in Iran orchestrated by the British and American secret services
Experimental physicist Freya Blekman talks to Tushna Commissariat about the joy of working on big science collaborations
Engineering physicist Christine Tremblay on making fibre-optic networks cheaper, smarter and more resilient, and opening the way to send voice, data and video stre...
Physicists at QinetiQ are developing systems that combine and control high-energy laser beams to provide a powerful and cost-effective countermeasure against drones and other uncre...
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