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Insight offers a look into the people behind our education, the stories that led to a lecturer writing physics equations on the whiteboard at the front of the your lecture theatre. Join us as we interview the academics making St Andrews.

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Insight offers a look into the people behind our education, the stories that led to a lecturer writing physics equations on the whiteboard at the front of the your lecture theatre. Join us as we interview the academics making St Andrews.

    Professor Marumi Kado

    Professor Marumi Kado

    The future and the past of the Higgs boson, ATLAS, and CERN. Do we need the FCC? And much more in this interview!
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    "Furious Freak”
    Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

    • 43 min
    Prof Albert de Roeck

    Prof Albert de Roeck

    Another exciting interview from our CERN mini-series, this time with Prof Albert de Roeck, who was in the leadership of the CMS experiment in CERN at the exciting time that the Higgs boson was being discovered. What is the exciting future of neutrinos and what enchants him about egyptology? Listen and find out!
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    "Furious Freak”
    Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

    • 58 min
    Stephanie Campbell

    Stephanie Campbell

    In this episode we speak with Stephanie Campbell, an astronomy PhD student at the University of St Andrews. We discuss their time at St Andrews, researching the use of dynamic models to study galaxies, as well as their work in diversity and outreach in astronomy. This includes coordinating the University of St Andrews Mobile Planetarium and being the Regional Liaison for the International Society of Non-binary Scientists. (Photo credit: Andrew Perry)
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    "Furious Freak”
    Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

    • 47 min
    Dr Simon Clark

    Dr Simon Clark

    In this week's episode of Insight, Dr Simon Clark talks about his journey into science content creation, his new book Firmament and also his favourite coordinate system.
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    "Furious Freak”
    Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

    • 29 min
    Frederik Van der Veken

    Frederik Van der Veken

    Frederik is working on the collimators in the LHC, but his path to CERN led through performing arts, philosophy, classical music and then quantum chromodynamics. He speaks about his adventures travelling in Africa and elsewhere and adds many interesting insights into the fields in which he's been involved. Enjoy listening!
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    "Furious Freak”
    Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

    • 47 min
    Patrick Geeraert

    Patrick Geeraert

    An interview with Patrick Geeraert, whose long and successful career in CERN now culminates in leading the Science Gateway project. Having also done a 9-year detour to ESO, Patrick speaks about the coincidence that lead him to CERN in the first place, managing huge international science projects, and adds a few charming anecdotes.
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    "Furious Freak”
    Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

    • 42 min

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