CERN Alumni Advent Calendar Wishes 2020 - 9th December - Federica Mingrone

Published on December 8, 2020

Formerly working at CERN on such facilities as the neutron time-of-flight facility, nTOF, Federica is now a nuclear engineer at the International Atomic Energy Agency, in Vienna. She shares her wishes and resolutions for 2021 with the CERN Alumni Community. 

 
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