International Women's Day with CERN Alumnae

Published on March 7, 2022

To celebrate International Women's Day this 8th of March, we will shed a spotlight on our CERN Alumnae that have shared their stories with us:

Silvia Zorzetti

 

 CERN Alumna: Silvia Zorzetti
At CERN: Technical student and Fellow in the Beams Department 2013- 2017
Today: Deputy Head, Quantum Computing Co-Design Department at Fermilab SQMS.

https://alumni.cern/news/663428

 

 

Kitty C. Liao

 

 

CERN Alumna: Kitty Liao
At CERN: Fellow in the Beams Department 2010-2013. 
Today:  Founder/ CEO of IDEABATIC

https://alumni.cern/news/484831

 

 

Charlotte Waltregny

 

 

CERN Alumna: Charlotte Waltregny
At CERN: worked in the ATLAS group of UNIGE
Today: Data Scientist for P&G

https://alumni.cern/news/464274

 

 

 

Suzie Sheehy

 

CERN Alumna: Suzie Sheehy

At CERN: Summer Student, 2004
Today: Writer, Senior Lecturer at Melbourne University, Royal Society University Research Fellow

https://alumni.cern/news/462750

 

 

Lucía Gallego Manzano 

 

 

CERN Alumna: Lucía Gallego Manzano
At CERN: 2017 – 2020 Fellow in HSE Radiation Protection Special Projects section
Today: Scientific Collaborator at CHUV | Lausanne University Hospital

https://alumni.cern/news/446698

 

 

 

Marie Nowak

 

CERN Alumna: Marie Nowak
At CERN: 2016 – end 2019 – Doctoral Student in HSE Radiation Protection Dosimetry and Calibration
Today: Medical Physicist SSRPM at CHUV (Lausanne University Hospital)

https://alumni.cern/news/446698

 

 

 

 

Shannon Towey

 

CERN Alumna: Shannon Towey
At CERN: ATLAS User 2015-2016
Today: works on mission systems and operations of spacecraft on Mars

https://alumni.cern/news/395710

 

 

 

 

Nada Alghamdi

 

CERN alumna: Nada Alghamdi
At CERN: 2019 Summer Student
Today: Physics Master's student for fall 2020 at EPFL

https://alumni.cern/news/304838

 

 

 

 Laia Subirats Mate

 

 

CERN Alumna: Laia Subirats Mate

At CERN: 2007 Summer Student
Today: Science researcher and lecturer in Barcelona, Spain

 https://alumni.cern/news/292979

 

 

 

Alexandra Martín Sánchez

 

 

CERN Alumna: Alexandra Martín Sánchez
At CERN: USER for LHCb 2009-2013
Today: Project Manager in scientific computing at EDF R&D

https://alumni.cern/news/261684

 

 

 

 

 

Anna Pantelia

 

 

CERN Alumna: Anna Pantelia
At CERN: 2012 Summer Student, 2013-2014 Administrative Student
Today: Field Communications Manager for an NGO

https://alumni.cern/news/225019

 

 

 

Jean Richardson

 

CERN Alumna: Jean Richardson
At CERN: Fellow 1981-1982, Scientific Associate 1984-1986
Today: Data Scientist for a major international group for drug development

https://alumni.cern/news/222534

 

 

Eleni Mountricha

 

CERN Alumna: Eleni Mountricha
At CERN: from 2007 to 2018, experimental physicist working as Master, Ph.D., postdoctoral researcher and research fellow
Today: Working as Aero-Service Performance Manager for the world leader in global, mobile satellite communications

https://alumni.cern/news/204783

 

 

CERN Alumna Maria Carmen Mordo Testa in front of CERN ATLAS cooling towers
Maria Carmen Mordo

 

CERN Alumna: Maria Carmen Morodo Testa
At CERN: From 1999 to 2004, Telecommunications Engineer in the Cooling & Ventilation Group of the Technical Services Department (ST).
Today: At the European Space Agency (ESA) where she is Launch Range Programmatic Support Officer in the Directorate of Space Transportation and is working on the project for the launch base of the future Ariane 6 launcher. 

https://alumni.cern/news/184371

 

 

Chiara Bianchin

 

CERN Alumna:Chiara Bianchin
At CERN:  Physicist and user in the ALICE collaboration from 2012 to 2016
Today: Data scientist in a consulting company

https://alumni.cern/news/183518

 

 

 

Monica Marinucci

 

CERN Alumna: Monica Marinucci
At CERN: Computer engineer from 1998 to 2004
Today: Cloud Customer Success for EMEA at a major IT company

https://alumni.cern/news/183503

 

 

 

Rocio Perez-Ochoa

 

CERN Alumna: Rocio Perez-Ochoa
At CERN: 1995 to 1996 as a Technical Student, 1996 to 1999 as a Doctoral Student
Today: Co-founder and Director of a start-up, which distributes life-improving products in rural Kenya.

 

https://alumni.cern/news/150150

 

 

 

Olivia Delage

 

 

CERN Alumna: Olivia Delage
At CERN from: 2016 to 2017 as Fellow in Human Resources Department
Today: Junior Recruitment and Sourcing Specialist in a Digital Marketing Research Start-up

https://alumni.cern/news/136750

 

 

 

Anne Richards (Finnigan) 

 

 

CERN Alumna: Anne Richards (Finnigan) 
At CERN: from 1984 to 1988, worked on software and electronics for the LEP machine
Today: CEO at a private finance services company. Chair of the CERN & Society Foundation

https://alumni.cern/news/111492

 

 

Sudeshna Datta-Cockerill

 

CERN Alumna: Sudeshna Datta-Cockerill
At CERN: from 1976 to 2018
Today: Retired, ex-Member of the CERN Alumni Advisory Board

https://alumni.cern/news/92749

 

 

Otilia Militaru

 

CERN Alumna: Otilia Militaru
At CERN: 1996 to 2012, physicist in the CMS Collaboration, dealing with the development of radhard semiconductor detectors and specialist in data acquisition testing systems
Today: Owner's Engineer at a private company in The Netherlands

https://alumni.cern/news/45586

 

 

 

Maaike Limper

 

CERN Alumna: Maaike Limper
At CERN: 2003 Summer Student, 2004-2011 working in data analysis in the ATLAS Collaboration, CERN Openlab fellow from 2012 to 2014 
Today: Head of aviation surface performance at a satellite company

https://alumni.cern/news/24431

 

 

 

Fatima Soomro

 

 

CERN Alumna: Fatima Soomro
At CERN: 2008 (PhD student, PostDoc) to 2015 in LHCb dealing with rare decays.
Today: IT expert in IT company in Lausanne

 

https://alumni.cern/news/12414

 

 

 

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