Masters programme offers pathway to emerging nano-industry
Graduate students who are keen to pursue a career in the nanotechnology industry can now study for an MSc that offers a direct connection to the commercial sector
Nuclear futures
The Nuclear Energy Agency's Jim Gulliford talks about the agency's new programme to train early-career nuclear physicists
Once a physicist: Arie van ’t Riet
Arie van ’t Riet is an artist in the Netherlands who uses X-ray equipment to create “bioramas” – X-ray portraits of animals and plants
The peril of proposals
Dalmeet Singh Chawla investigates the complex and crucial grant-funding process, to see if it is time to revamp how academics apply for funding
Once a physicist: LeeAnn Janissen
LeeAnn Janissen divides her time between her ceramic-art practice and her role as managing director of research for East Coast Fund Management in Toronto
Engineering a career in terahertz
NASA’s Ken Cooper describers how a PhD in physics put him on the path to a career in engineering
Once a physicist: Tim Head
Tim Head runs Wild Tree Tech – a software consultancy that builds data-analysis products and teaches courses on machine learning
In pursuit of the purest quartz
From a PhD in semiconductor physics to head of Quartz Products at Airbus Defence and Space, Richard Syme looks back at a long and enjoyable career
From physics to environmental science: a natural evolution?
Kate Ravilious talks to three researchers who are using their "physics mindset" to bring a fresh outlook on the earth sciences
Tales from a British physicist in Japan
Elizabeth Tasker details the good, the bad and the confusing of working as a physicist in Japan