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Read article: Ask me anything: Nicholas Attree – ‘With the basic toolkit of physics techniques…you can approach any new research areas’
Nicholas Attree is a postdoctoral researcher studying comets through the European Space Agency’s Rosetta and Comet Interceptor missions
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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 staff in Iraq
Read article: Ask me anything: Taghi Amirani – a physicist turned documentary-film maker
From studying physics to making documentary films, with his latest being Coup 53, about the 1953 coup in Iran orchestrated by the British and American secret services
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Read article: Freya Blekman: on the particle pathway of big science
Experimental physicist Freya Blekman talks to Tushna Commissariat about the joy of working on big science collaborations
Read article: Using physics to fuel fibre-optic innovation
Engineering physicist Christine Tremblay on making fibre-optic networks cheaper, smarter and more resilient, and opening the way to send voice, data and video streams at ever-increasi...
Read article: High-power lasers promise new defence strategy
Physicists at QinetiQ are developing systems that combine and control high-energy laser beams to provide a powerful and cost-effective countermeasure against drones and other uncrewed objects
Read article: Opening up innovation and change
Roland Harwood on open innovation, how he's helped organizations from Lego to the UN to implement change, and why he believes physics is leading the way in collaboration
Read article: Ask me anything: Martin Weides – ‘I love working in large, international teams; understanding problems and pushing boundaries to shape the future’
Martin Weides is head of the quantum-circuits group at the University of Glasgow and consultant technical director to the firm Oxford Instruments Nanoscience
Read article: Using physics to patent inventions
Having originally done a PhD in quantum computing, patent attorney Katherine Brown explains why a scientific background is an asset in this area
