Career interview: Electronic engineer
Geraldine Paxton, an electronics engineer, is a member of the Ford Motor Company Limited’s graduate trainee scheme. [External link]
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Career interview: Secondary maths teaching
Paul Clifford is the Deputy Head of Maths at Elizabeth Garrett Anderson school in Islington. Plus visited him there to hear about life as a secondary maths teacher. [External link]
Career interview: Visual effects director
Alexis Wajsbrot is a visual effects specialist who has worked on a number of high-profile films. His speciality is anything that behaves like a fluid: water, smoke, fire, even fur or cloth. [External link]
Career interview: Theoretical physics researcher
Francesco Mezzadri and Nina Snaith are PhD students in Applied Mathematics at the University of Bristol. They are also affiliated with Hewlett Packard’s BRIMS Laboratory. [External link]
Career interview: The fastest mathematician on Earth
Andy Green, Royal Air force pilot and Oxford maths graduate, is gearing up to break his own land speed record in Bloodhound SSC, a supersonic car designed to reach speeds of up to 1000mph. He tells Plus about the challenges – and the maths – behind this engineering adventure. [External link]
Career interview: Systems engineer
Chuck Gill has worked as a US Air Force navigator, a satellite operator, and in the US intelligence service. These days he’s busy reducing carbon emissions and preparing London for the 2012 Olympics. [External link]
Career interview: Systems administrator
Steve Traylen tells Plus about life as a Systems Administrator. [External link]
Career interview: Statistical consulting
John Henstridge and Jodie Thompson tell Plus about life as consultant statisticians, modelling real-world problems in areas as diverse as the shipping industry and water rationing. [External link]
Career interview: Scientific data analyst, life science technology
Gavin Harper, a mathematician and statistician, works for Oxford Nanopore Technologies, a company which is developing new technology for analysing molecules and sequencing DNA. [External link]
Career interview: Science communicator
Jenni Barker plots the path from astrophysics to science journalism. [External link]
Career interview: Science communicator
Science writer and exhibition researcher Alison Boyle tells Plus about her work creating up-to-the-minute news exhibits at the Science Museum in London. [External link]
Career interview: Sales forecasting
Helen Thompson works for Sainsbury’s Supermarkets as a Sales Forecasting Manager. [External link]
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