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Amelia Edwards

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  • Education:

    I went to high school at Bishop Rawstorne Academy in Croston.
    For college I went to Cardinal Newman college in the centre of Preston.
    For university I went to Lancaster University and I am studying for my PhD with Lancaster University. Although I am based in Switzerland my supervisor is in England at Lancaster University, we skype once a week about my work.

  • Qualifications:

    For my GCSE’s I got 10A*s and 2As.
    For my A-levels I studied Maths, Physics, Italian, and General Studies, I got A*BBB. I also studied Art and Critical thinking for As level.
    At university I got 1st in my Masters in Nuclear Engineering

  • Work History:

    Assistant in a car garage.
    Waitress in a restaurant.
    Shop assistant at a motorway service station.
    Bar staff at university.
    Summer intern at BAE systems and Westinghouse.
    Waitress in Wagamama restaurant.

  • Current Job:

    PhD student with Lancaster University based at CERN

  • About Me:

    I’m Amelia an I am working at CERN doing studying towards a PhD in Engineering. I work on designing electronics circuits.
    CERN is based at the border between Switzerland and France so I live in Switzerland in the city of Geneva. I have been here for two years.
    When I am not working I enjoy dancing, yoga and skiing in the Alps

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    I was born in a small village halfway between Manchester and Liverpool called Eccleston. I always loved physics and maths but I also really loved art and I studied Italian. I went to college in Preston and went to Lancaster university for my degree in Nuclear Engineering.

    I love ballroom dancing, I was inspired by strictly come dancing! I started dancing at University and I haven’t stopped since then!

    After university I came to live in Switzerland to work on my PhD at CERN. CERN is the largest particle physics laboratory in the world, CERN is where the Higgs Boson was discovered and the World Wide Web was invented.

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    In order to make more discoveries in particle physics we need to keep smashing bunches of particles together with more and more energy!

    More energy means bigger particle colliders!

    At the moment the biggest particle accelerator in the world is the Large Hadron Collider, this is a circular collider where particles go round a loop before colliding.

    I am working on a project where we aim to build a particle accelerator in a straight line. We aim to build a collider in a straight line which is 50km long.

    We inject

  • My Typical Day:

    I wake up every morning and drink a coffee straight away! I take the tram to CERN and try to arrive at about 9am. Each morning I go to the control room and check on the experiment. I check what has happened overnight and make sure it will run smoothly in the day. If there are any problems we have to try and fix them straight away. Problems can be anything from software on the computer, water leaks or radiation! Once a week we have a group meeting to discuss the project. If there are no problems then I can work on projects for my phd. Sometimes this is programming, sometimes performing calculations and sometimes building electronics.

  • What I'd do with the prize money:

    I will give the money to the ‘Women in Technology’ group here at CERN

  • My Interview

    • How would you describe yourself in 3 words?

      Curious, funny,

      What did you want to be after you left school?

      I wanted to be a dog trainer

      Were you ever in trouble at school?

      Only for trying to avoid P.E.

      Who is your favourite singer or band?

      Disclosure

      What's your favourite food?

      Pasta!

      If you had 3 wishes for yourself what would they be? - be honest!

      That my PhD would be finished tomorrow! and I could live in a big house where I could have loads of giant dogs!

      Tell us a joke.

      What do you call an American Bee? A USB.

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