Workshop Perspectives 10

16 mai 2025, 10:00 → 17 mai 2025, 14:00 Europe/Paris

TBA (Orsay)

D2i2 is proud to announce the 10th edition of our workshop "Perspectives"  - Happy Birthday !

Registrations are now opened!

Whether your PhD thesis is just starting, advancing, or a distant memory, these two days will answer your most serious questions about your professional future in a friendly and relevant environment. During the workshop, about 15 speakers are invited, researchers in the public and private sectors, working in outreach, teachers, working in start ups or large companies... Recruitment and occupational integration specialists will also be present.

 

During round tables or within small-group activities, they will explain their path and their actual work, will detail the terms and conditions of competitions for public research, and demystify how recruitment works in the private sector. These two days will give you a broad view of the available perspectives after a PhD thesis in our fields.

The PHENIICS doctoral school sponsors this event, and will account it as one of your doctoral training, as long as you take part in the two days of the event. For the third year, the workshop will be hosted in English.

Registration is free, and not only reserved to D2i2 members. All PhD students from any doctoral school is welcome. Lunch and coffee breaks are provided within the limit of participation numbers.

 

 

ven. 16 mai

10:00 → 10:30 Welcome

10:30 → 10:45 D2I2 presentation

Président de session: D2i2 Association

10:30 D2i2 association

10:45 → 12:00 Round Table: Scientific outreach

10:45 Elodie Chabrol

10:45 Pierre Fleury

Pierre Fleury is a cosmologist, specialised in the theory of gravitational lensing. He defended his PhD in 2015 in Paris and is now a CNRS researcher in Montpellier after 3 successive postdocs in Cape Town, Geneva and Madrid. His research activity has always been accompanied with various forms of public outreach: conferences; translations (Cosmology’s Century and the Manga Guide to Relativity); co-creation and acting in a theatre play (L’Horizon des Événements); conceptualisation of an outreach app for lensing (The Hunt for Dark Matter); and interventions in high schools.

10:45 Raphaël Granier de Cassagnac

Raphael is both a particle physics researcher and a video-game creator. His debut game, Exographer[1], was released last fall on Steam (PC and Mac), Switch, PS5 and XBOX. The game invites players on a journey through the discovery of fundamental particles, set in a fantasized world inspired by massive experiments imagined by iconic figures such as Curie or Higgs. As a researcher, Raphael studies the quark-gluon plasma with the CMS experiment, and works from the Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet of École polytechnique. There, he created an academic chair to study the links between Science and Video games, under the patronage of Ubisoft. He then funded the SciFunGames studio to release Exographer and make other games. His motto is: Science for all, Fun above all.
[1] Exographer on Steam : https://store.steampowered.com/app/2834320/Exographer/

14:00 → 15:00 Mental health: balancing work and home life

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 → 16:45 Round table: Public research

15:30 Dirk Zerwas

After a Master degree in Heidelberg in a detector development collaboration, Dirk Zerwas did a PhD at Paris-Sud. From 1998 to 2023 he worked at the Laboratoire de l’Accélérateur Linéaire (LAL), now Laboratoire de Physique des Deux Infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab). He was coordinator of the IRN (International Research Network) Terascale. Since 2023 he is Director of the CNRS Helmholtz Dark Matter Lab (DMLab), an international research lab of the CNRS, DESY, KIT and GSI in Hamburg (Germany). He has worked on ALEPH (LEP), ATLAS (LHC) and is member of the DRD6 collaboration (calorimetry). His other interests are phenomenological studies to interpret collider data and cosmological measurements in a common framework to derive constraints on supersymmetric models as well as the calculation of supersymmetric spectra (SuSpect3). The last three years he co-coordinated the ECFA working group on Physics Analysis Tools for the future Higgs/Top/Electroweak Factory.

Links:
- https://dmlab.in2p3.fr/
- https://www.ijclab.in2p3.fr/
- http://terascale.in2p3.fr/
- https://gitlab.in2p3.fr/ecfa-study/ECFA-HiggsTopEW-Factories

15:30 Federica Bradascio

Federica Bradascio is a physicist specializing in astroparticle physics, with a focus on multi-messenger and high-energy gamma-ray astronomy. After earning a degree in particle physics from the University of Pisa, Italy, she defended her PhD on neutrino astronomy in 2021 at Humboldt University of Berlin. She then worked for three years as a postdoctoral researcher at IRFU-CEA Paris-Saclay before joining Université Paris-Saclay in 2023 as maîtresse de conférences, based at the laboratoire de physique des deux infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab). She is currently involved in the H.E.S.S. and CTAO collaborations, contributing both to the search for astrophysical sources of high-energy particles through coordinated multi-messenger observations and to the development of CTAO cameras.

15:30 Mathieu de Naurois

15:30 Sullivan Marafico

Sullivan Marafico is a Research & Development Engineer at the Centre Antoine Lacassagne, a cancer treatment center specializing in protontherapy.

After completing a PhD in high-energy astrophysics (2022) and a brief postdoctoral position, he joined a start-up. However, the company's values did not align with his own, leading him to leave the position shortly thereafter. He then explored various paths, including organic farming, and was eventually accepted into the CAPES in mathematics. He declined the opportunity when he was offered a position at the Centre Antoine Lacassagne, which was seeking a research engineer to support and enhance its proton therapy clinical & research line.

His current role is twofold:
- Maintenance – He ensures the operational continuity of a 65 MeV isochronous cyclotron, critical for delivering consistent proton therapy treatments.
- Research & Development – He actively proposes and develops innovative solutions to improve both clinical practices and research activities.

Sullivan collaborates with researchers from across Europe who conduct experiments at the center, working closely with them to develop innovative particle detectors.

16:45 → 17:45 CNRS interviews : Backstages

16:45 Nicolas Leroy

Useful links
- GALAXIE for "enseignants-chercheurs" :
https://www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/candidats.html
- "concours" researchers :
http://www.dgdr.cnrs.fr/drhchercheurs/concoursch/default-fr.htm
- section 01 website for information :
https://section01.in2p3.fr/index.html
- "concours" engineers :
http://www.dgdr.cnrs.fr/drhita/concoursita/default.htm

Nicolas Leroy has been a researcher at CNRS since 2004 at Laboratoire de l’accélérateur linéaire (LAL) and now at laboratoire de physique des deux infinis Irène Joliot-Curie (IJCLab). He works on the search for gravitational waves with the Virgo experiment. He took part in many competition/interview jurys : CNRS researchers (member of "section 01" between 2012 and 2016), "maitre de conférences" (Sorbonne Université, UGA, Paris-Sud) and research engineers at CNRS.

18:30 → 19:30 Social gathering at Hall of Beer

Meet & Drink at Orsay's 'Hall of Beer'

sam. 17 mai

09:00 → 09:30 Welcome: Welcome breakfast

09:30 → 10:45 Round table: Research and development, private sector

09:30 Diane Martraire

After completing her PhD in Astroparticle Physics at IPNO (now IJCLab) in 2014, Diane spent four years conducting research in China and Italy.

Curious about what lay beyond academia, she explored the private sector - a journey that took her from Data Scientist at ArianeGroup to Programme Manager at Safran and Thales.

Today, she is Engineering Manager at Leboncoin, a leading French digital marketplace, where she leads a cross-functional technical team composed of developers (iOS, Android, Web, Backend).
An example of how a strong scientific background can open unexpected and exciting doors - across a wide range of sectors, roles and environments.

09:30 Luc Noizette

09:30 Thomas Dumaire

09:30 Vsevolod Yeroshenko?

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 → 12:30 Round Table: Education - Teaching

11:15 Jonathan Biteau

Jonathan Biteau is Maître de conférences at the Paris-Saclay University since 2015. He teaches (astro)physics from L1 to M2, in particular within the MSc program Nuclei, Particles, Astroparticles and Cosmology (NPAC), which he co-directs. His research within the Auger and CTAO collaborations (+ HESS and VERITAS during his PhD and postdoc years) focuses on extragalactic astrophysics and cosmology, as well as instrumentation for astroparticle observatories.

11:15 Vincent Lemaire

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch