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Léa Girard

Léa Girard
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Location
Cambridge
Expertise

I am an engineer with a generalist approach and thoroughly trained in maths and physics. My speciality is in nuclear engineering and physics.

  • I got the Prize of Sustainable Energy EDF chair for my master's thesis on nuclear data for reactors, in experimental physics.
  • I interviewed Anne Isabelle Etienvre, general administrator of the CEA for Le Point and lead a panel with Bruno Bonnell, the French secretary in charge of investment at the time.
  • I was a summer student at CERN working in the LHCb experiment. It is part of the large hadron collider, the largest collider in the world, used for particle physics discoveries.

Experience

I have written for different school newspapers and literary magazines, starting at Polytechnique and now at Cambridge. I am interested in all sorts of science subjects and science communication to non specialists

Education

I have a masters from the best French engineering school, Ecole Polytechnique. After two years of preparation in maths and physics in classes préparatoires, I specialized in physics at Polytechnique while following a general engineering degree. Now, I am a student at the university of Cambridge doing an MPhil in nuclear engineering.

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