CERN Alumni Weekly News | International Youth Day, Damla Gozuk, Seminar on Colour X-rays for Medicine, Higgs research, working in particle physics without a PhD
On 12 August, we celebrated International Youth Day with three CERN alumni working on different Sustainable Development Goals.
Rayane Belaid is developing a hand exoskeleton for assisting hand impaired patients; Pratyush Anand's activity is related to building quantum magnetometers for magnetoencephalography and geophysical surveying and Alforat Faiz Nooraldeen Al-Sakkaf is creating technology to simulate carbon emissions, which aims to measure and report carbon footprints: https://alumni.cern/news/876227
In our series “Summer Students – where are they now” we feature Damla Gozuk, whose career steps have led her to the world of banking (network security) as well as her enrollment in an MSc. Cybersecurity program at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden: https://alumni.cern/news/849335
Join a detector seminar on Colour X-rays for Medicine on 2 September, featuring CERN alumnus Anthony Butler, President of the New Zealand company MARS Bioimaging, which has teamed up with CERN to develop a 3D colour X-ray scanner based on the Medipix3 technology: https://alumni.cern/events/93165
Before the seminar, get a sneak peek of the interview he gave us back in 2018: https://alumni.cern/news/879575
"Nature made no promises that understanding the origins of the Higgs should have been easy, nor should it be in the future, but history teaches that those who explore relentlessly and fearlessly are often the ones rewarded with the greatest prize of all: the truth": https://home.web.cern.ch/news/news/physics/higgs10-inventing-future-higgs-research
Earning a doctoral degree is just one way to begin a career in physics. Meet six people who make crucial contributions to particle physics research, without a PhD: https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/6-views-of-working-in-particle-physics-without-a-phd