CERN Alumni Weekly News | Komal Tauqeer, AWAKE collaboration, Anna Panagopoulou, CERN Courier webinars, how to bounce back from a PhD-project failure

Komal Tauqeer, former Summer Student (2019) kicks off our new series “Summer Students: Where are they now?”. Komal shares what being part of the programme means to her and how her experience as a summer student impacted her career: https://alumni.cern/news/849334

The AWAKE collaboration has successfully seeded the self-modulation of a proton bunch, to control and stabilise plasma waves that can accelerate electrons with record gradients. See how AWAKE (Advanced Wakefield Experiment) is looking to revolutionise the field of particle acceleration: https://home.cern/news/news/experiments/awake-sows-seeds-controlled-particle-acceleration-using-plasma-wakefields

Anna Panagopoulou, director of European Research Area and Innovation at the European Commission warns that if we don’t dare spend money on projects that bring us to the future then we, as Europe, lose a competitive advantage, read more in the CERN Courier: https://cerncourier.com/a/engines-of-knowledge-and-innovation/

The CERN Courier is organising a series of webinars to pique your interest, the first covering RF technology for LHC and HL-LHC. More information and registration here: https://alumni.cern/events/92264

Dive into this Nature article where five scientists talk about the hurdles they faced in their PhD research, how they successfully switched projects midway through and what advice they have for others in a similar situation. See how to bounce back from a PhD-project failure: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01900-y