CERN Alumni Weekly News | 10 Questions with Christos Bakalis, Larissa Mendes, “Collider Diaries" at SCINEMA, switching labs during a PhD, ISIS Neutron and Muon Source recording

Published on August 8, 2022

Christos Bakalis, PhD Student at CERN, now working as an Electronics Engineer at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab shared his story in 10 questions. He outlines his favourite CERN memories, the advice he would give to his younger self, the skills he developed at CERN and much more: https://alumni.cern/news/853951.
You too can share your story in 10 questions and be featured on CERN Alumni channels: https://alumni.web.cern.ch/form/-10questions-for-cernalumni

Find out what Larissa Mendes, 2019 Summer Student, now working as an X-Ray Detector Analyst has been up to in our latest “Summer Students: where are they now?” article: https://alumni.cern/news/868279

CERN research made waves at the 22nd edition of SCINEMA, the largest science film festival in the southern hemisphere, which takes place in Adelaide, Australia. Read about the “Collider Diaries”, a series created by the Future Circular Collider (FCC) collaboration and Terra Mater Studios with the support of the H2020 MSCA EASITrain project and how it won the Best Online Format award: https://home.web.cern.ch/news/news/cern/collider-diaries-web-series-receives-prestigious-scinema-festival-award

Dive into this Nature magazine article to read about Jonathan Park’s story of switching labs during a PhD, as his interests changed after caring for a person with cancer: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01867-w

Lastly, if you missed our Virtual Company Showroom with ISIS Neutron and Muon Source, you can now watch the event recording in our Media Centre. Gain insights about jobs in a world-leading centre for research in  physical and life sciences: https://alumni.cern/media_center