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Sebastian Jaskiewicz
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About Me:
I like to watch football and go for hikes in the mountains. Sometimes I also do bouldering.
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I always loved football and played a lot when I was a kid, I still like to do it when I get a chance. During my PhD, I lived in Munich, which is only 1.5hours away from the Alps, so I got into hiking quite a bit! I also sometimes try more adventurous activities in the mountains, for example I like to ski, and have you heard of a “via ferrata”?
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My pronouns are:
he/him
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My Work:
I am a theoretical particle physicist working on precision predictions for collider experiments. The main goal is to understand building blocks of Nature. My experimental colleagues build huge experiments such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. They use these big machines to collide particles and measure what comes out using detectors. It is part of my work to make calculations which predict what they should see in their detectors.
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My Typical Day:
As a theoretical physicist, I work in an office at a university. On the way to work, I stop by my favourite bakery to pick up a Zimtschnecke (this is what they call cinnamon rolls in Switzerland). The first thing I do at work, is look at the new publications from that day over a cup of coffee to see what new exciting developments have happened. I then work on my projects and calculations. This can include discussing physics at a blackboard with colleagues, writing computer code, doing calculations, thinking about how the results I obtain fit into a bigger picture, reading papers, going to seminars, sometimes preparing my own talks for conferences. There is really a lot of variety in my day-to-day work life, and the best thing is that I have a lot of freedom in deciding to work on the problems that I find most interesting!
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What I'd do with the prize money:
I would purchase as many copies of the Quark Matter Card Game, or similar elementary particle physics based game, and distribute to as many schools as I can so the students can play and learn about fundamental interactions. The Quark Matter Card Game is actually four card games based on quarks and leptons, which are the elementary particles of the universe.
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My Interview