CERN Alumni Weekly News | CERN Alumna Valeria Pettorino, CERN Alumni Regional Group Meet Up, Moving Out of Academia to Software Engineering
"I wish I had met more women when I started in this industry and so I am helping to create a network for women so that they can have access to data on career options in this field more easily and make it easier for them to decide what they would like to do career wise.” CERN alumna Valeria Pettorino shares her experience and passion for mentoring in our latest interview: https://alumni.cern/news/1357724
Are you interested in mentoring? Browse and find your mentor on alumni.cern: https://alumni.cern/mentorships
If your career journey took you to Athens or Belgium, you might want to reconnect with fellow CERN alumni in these regions. Join the upcoming meet-ups organised on 3 March in Athens: https://alumni.cern/events/p/63882 or the one taking place in Brussels on 7 April: https://alumni.cern/events/107540
Our upcoming and highly appreciated Moving Out of Academia event series is coming back on 31 March, this time with the focus on Software Engineering. Sign-up here https://alumni.cern/events/105751
Terapet SA, a company founded by CERN alumni, secures over CHF 2,3 million to bring its first product to market and to accelerate development of new nuclear imaging products: https://alumni.cern/news/1366820
If you did not have a chance to assist in the Sparks! Talks last November, we invite you to dive back into the event, which was centred around future technology for health – covering aspects from the use of CERN technology for imaging, to DeepMind’s breakthroughs with AI for AlphaFold, to the complexity of changing ethics in a world of quickly evolving technology: https://home.web.cern.ch/news/news/cern/sparks-talks-videos-available-online
Registration is open for the 2023 CERN Accelerator Schools, taking place in Austria, Germany and Spain: https://home.web.cern.ch/news/news/knowledge-sharing/cern-accelerator-school-school-no-other
Explore Nature’s resources for mid career scientists, in which they talk about how they support junior colleagues, navigate workplace politics, and find time for research alongside administrative, leadership roles and life’s challenges. https://www.nature.com/collections/fdggggbhee?
Finally, do not forget you can be featured on alumni.cern by filling out our 10 questions with CERN Alumni questionnaire: https://alumni.web.cern.ch/form/-10questions-for-cernalumni