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Ask me anything: Janina Moereke – ‘I wish I’d known how beneficial a healthy amount of self-doubt is’
Janina Moereke is a development engineer who uses optical and electrical techniques to characterize and develop thin-film solar cells
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Sara Fry is the head of sustainability and of safety, health and environment at a multinational engineering solutions company
Oliver Grimston: from intern to chief of staff at bp
Petrophysicist Oliver Grimston talks about his career at British oil and gas company bp, from its graduate programme to his current role as the firm’s chief of s...
Physics World Careers
The 2023 edition of Physics World Careers is packed full of advice for early-career scientists. Including a range of valuable advice, informative case studies and recruiter profiles, it demonstrates the variety of jobs that use a physics degree.
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