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Iasonas Topsis Manager at EY Belgium |
Currently working in the People Advisory Services team, his main current project are developing a digital assistant on Azure Services, connected to the MS-Teams app and Workplace Analytics data, using python and Docker.
This project involves many NLP and Machine Learning models, statistical analysis etc.
Other projects he is currently involved in includes employee data analysis to predict employee attrition, shift work data to pre-process and analyze in order to be used for tax exemptions, and various other data sources he uses for various optimizations.
His experience at CERN provided him is the opportunity to understand various statistical analysis techniques, as CERN was the place where he first came to meet and know what Machine Learning is about. The Organization provided him the scientific criteria needed to be able to prove or discard and design analysis ideas.
CERN offered his first deep dive into programming and gave him the whole mentality needed to pursue such roles.
“All in all, no matter what types of data you analyse the principles remain the same, just the techniques change.
I feel like I am continuing the journey started at CERN but with different data sources, applying the same thinking and same methodologies I learned through my presence at CERN.
And it was the whole environment at CERN provided me with what was needed to succeed in any business outside academia.”
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Florian Kruse Founder & Managing Director at Point 8 |
Florian was part of the LHCb collaboration from 2008 to 2015. During his PhD thesis, he studied CP violation in B_s -> J/Psi KS decays and graduated from TU Dortmund in December 2015. After his time in particle physics, he founded Point 8, a company that provides data science for industrial companies, together with his former fellow students and researchers, Tobias Brambach and Christophe Cauet. At Point 8 he is CEO and furthermore responsible for sales and customer development. Since its foundation in early 2016, Point 8 has grown from 3 to about 20 employees to date.
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Max Baak Data Scientist, former Particle Physicist |
Max Baak worked at CERN for almost 7 years, first as a Research fellow, then as a Research staff. After working for KPMG and ING, he currently holds the position of Guest Scientist at Socially Intelligent Artificial Systems, Informatics Institute, Universiteit van Amsterdam.
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Till Eifert Specialist Consultant at QuantumBlack, a McKinsey Company | Senior Data Scientist & Physicist |
Till studied at the Humboldt and Geneva universities, and was a member of the ATLAS collaboration between 2006 and 2020. During his time at CERN he spent most of his time on the search for SUSY.
Since 2020 he is working with McKinsey & Company in the Geneva office. Currently, on analytics for renewable energies.
Elena obtained her PhD from the University of Torino in 2007 with a thesis on open charm reconstruction in heavy-ion collisions collisions in ALICE. Afterwards, she spent three years as Post-Doc at the Yale University, working on jet reconstruction in the STAR experiment. She then started a research position at INFN Torino from 2011 until 2018, when she moved to Germany to be data scientist at Boehringer Ingelheim Digital Lab BI X. She works on digital products in the pharmaceutical field. In particular, she is using artificial intelligence to pioneer new ideas which can improve human, animal health, pharma production processes. Although many aspects of her job are different from the research in physics as expected, the experience on statistical data analysis, the capability to investigate data, and machine learning techniques which she gained in physics are definitely key points for her current work. |
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Torsten Dahms Solution Architect at DXC Technology |
After his PhD on low-mass dielectron production at RHIC (Brookhaven, USA) in 2008, Torsten joined the CMS collaboration as a CERN research fellow (2008–2010) followed by postdoc at Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, from 2010 to 2013. During these years, he studied quarkonium production in pp and heavy-ion collisions at the LHC. In 2013 he started a junior research group leader position at Technical University Munich and joined the ALICE collaboration to research low-mass dielectron production at the LHC. In 2019, Torsten left academia to work at DXC as solution architect for an autonomous driving platform of a premium car manufacturer in Germany.
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Julia Hunt Project manager at Ellen MacArthur Foundation |
The circular economy is a way to transform our current take-make-waste economy into one where waste is eliminated, resources are circulated, and nature is regenerated. Julia works on devising and implementing metrics to make the circular economy measurable. She is the project manager of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s measurement tool Circulytics, with which companies can comprehensively assess their circular economy performance.
Before joining the Ellen MacArthur Foundation in 2019, Julia graduated with an MSc in physics from the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology with a master's thesis at the CMS experiment.
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Anthony Nardini OnDeck |
Anthony Nardini launched the On Deck First 50 Fellowship, a community through which the most talented job-seekers intentionally find their next roles at world-changing startups. On Deck helps ambitious people start and scale companies, and accelerate their careers.
Anthony originally got to know the organization as a participant in the Founder Fellowship in June 2020 while building his prior company, Get Your Next Career. He joined the staff in October 2020 to build OD50, which has supported nearly 500 entrepreneurial job-seekers in its first four cohorts, chosen from 2,500+ applicants.
As of October 2021, Anthony now leads the Hiring business at On Deck, building a suite of communities, services and products that support job-seekers and the startups hiring them. He was featured in the Talent category of the 2021 Anchor List, honoring top startup operators.
Before pivoting into startups, Anthony spent 11 years at Goldman Sachs across the New York, London and Los Angeles offices, most recently as the Business Unit Manager for Southern California Private Wealth Management.
