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Ask me anything: Anne Pawsey – ‘I really enjoy working with a huge community of physicists’
Anne Pawsey is secretary general of the European Physical Society in Mulhouse, France
Breaking barriers: embracing neurodiversity in neutron science
Adam Berlie wants neurodivergent scientists to develop careers that reflect their unique strengths
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How to survive a physics PhD
Having recently completed her own PhD in physics, Pruthvi Mehta gives her five top tips for surviving your doctoral studies
Ask me anything: Moiya McTier – ‘There is no greater thrill than standing on a stage in front of a crowd full of curious people’
Moiya McTier is an astrophysicist, science communicator and author in New York City, US
Levelling up: from student to mentor to trainee physics teacher
Ellie Whitehall describes her move from student to teacher in physics, reflecting on her experiences of education
16 key skills and attributes for a successful career in physics
Carol Davenport on the “hard” and “soft” skill sets that are invaluable when it comes to your employability as a physicist
From ATLAS to the control room: a high-school student’s week at CERN
Sixth-form student Annabelle Gill discusses a week-long internship at CERN
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Ask me anything: Ashok Chauhan – ‘There are great opportunities to build a research-focused physics career in industry’
Ashok Chauhan is a senior scientist at Ceryx Medical, a research-led biomedical device company
Cutting-edge accelerator technologies are key to success for the MYRRHA research reactor
The MYRRHA project in Belgium is seeking enthusiastic scientists, engineers and project managers with a talent for cross-disciplinary collaboration
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Ask me anything: Xavier Calmet – ‘Scientific intuition is crucial. Either you have it, or you don’t’
Calmet's work encompasses a broad “wavefunction” of physics, with a particular focus on quantum gravity and black holes
Ask me anything: Margaret Gardel – ‘I wish I could tell myself 20 years ago that it’s okay to feel like an impostor’
Margaret Gardel is a biophysicist and professor at the University of Chicago, US, where she is director of the new Center for Living Systems
How networking can bolster diversity in physics
Claire Malone describes how you can improve those all-important networking skills
Ask me anything: Sally Oey – ‘Understanding the universe just a little bit better is the whole reason why I’m doing this’
Sally Oey is a professor of astronomy at the University of Michigan, US
Ask me anything: Kim Nygård – ‘The better I am at building relationships with these colleagues, the smoother the project progresses’
Kim Nygård manages the ForMAX beamline at Sweden’s MAX IV synchrotron laboratory
Rethinking physics: Silvia Vignolini on succeeding at the boundary between disciplines
Silvia Vignolini explains the joys of working across scientific boundaries
Multidisciplinary collaboration opens the way to strategic innovation in wireless technology
The Wireless Products team at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence delivers cutting-edge innovations in electronics and digital signal processing
Physicists wanted: the demand for physics skills in the UK workplace
Sharon Ann Holgate explores the findings of a recent report analysing this labour market demand in the UK and Ireland
Ask me anything: Cathy Foley – ‘I have lots of balls in the air on multiple projects’
Catherine Foley is a solid-state physicist who is currently the chief scientist of Australia
Ask me anything: Sara Webb – ‘It’s always beautiful and humbling to be one of the first to look at the pictures of the universe we’re taking’
Sara Webb is an astrophysicist and science communicator based at the Swinburne University of Technology in Australia
Ask me anything: Lilly Liu – ‘We need team work: it’s impossible for one individual or team to solve a problem’
Lilly Liu is an associate professor at the University of Bristol, researching materials used in extreme environments
Engineering world-changing materials: Nicola Spaldin on the importance of curiosity-driven research and what it means to be a physicist
Materials scientist Nicola Spaldin talks about her award-winning research and her somewhat circuitous career path
Creative licence: how to stimulate innovation and generate new ideas
Dennis Sherwood on the creative process and how to grow a good idea
The sound of silence: career opportunities in acoustic science and engineering
Acoustic specialists at QinetiQ minimize the noise made by ships, submarines and other maritime platforms
Wireless trend demands radiofrequency innovation
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...
Ask me anything: Clare Burrage – ‘We look for connections between different areas of physics, but it is impossible for anyone to be an expert across it all’
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...
Ask me anything: Nicole Bell – ‘Collaboration is the norm: we achieve more when we work together’
Nicole Bell is a dark-matter physicist and the new president of the Australian Institute of Physics
Ask me anything: Zahra Hussaini – ‘We’re working on autonomous driving technology that has the potential to transform lives’
Zahra Hussaini is a senior software reliability engineer at Waymo, an autonomous driving technology company that started as Google’s Self-Driving Car Project
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