{"id":983,"date":"2018-09-14T13:47:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T13:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/onyourwavelength\/?p=983"},"modified":"2018-09-17T13:00:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T13:00:42","slug":"interactions-stefanie-reichert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/onyourwavelength\/2018\/09\/14\/interactions-stefanie-reichert\/","title":{"rendered":"Interactions: Stefanie Reichert"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stefanie worked as an experimental particle physicist at CERN before moving to Berlin, where she just started as Associated Editor at Nature Physics<\/em>.<\/p>\n

What made you want to be a physicist?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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In fact, I\u2019ve tried everything to avoid physics when I was a teenager. In high school, I chose to learn Latin and then French as this would allow me to attend only two hours of physics per week. I grew up in Germany, and we had to do a one-week internship in 10th<\/sup> grade. Back then, I wanted to become a pathologist and hence I applied at the hospital nearby. As I wasn\u2019t sure if they\u2019d take me on, I looked for something else and then stumbled across books about the universe my parents gave me as a child. Turned out there was a Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg (MPIA) where I applied as well. Long story short: I got to do internships in both pathology and at MPIA but the latter blew me away: we got to observe the sun, count galaxies, learned about Rosetta, played with liquid nitrogen and then I was hooked! Funnily enough, I interned in an astronomy and a particle physics working group at university, and guess what?<\/p>\n

If you weren\u2019t a physicist, what would you like to be (and why)?<\/em><\/p>\n

After the internship, becoming a pathologist was out of the question (too uneventful for my taste). I guess I would sell books now and force recommendations on people. Maybe along with running a caf\u00e9 and roasting my own coffee.<\/p>\n

Which historical figure would you most like to have dinner with \u2014 and why?<\/em><\/p>\n

With Oscar Wilde, as I love his impeccable sense of humour and wit. If you haven\u2019t read \u2018The Importance of Being Earnest\u2019, you are clearly missing out.<\/p>\n

Which is the development that you would really like to see in the next 10 years?<\/em><\/p>\n

I believe that in science we are a leading example for promoting peace, equality and anti-racism. But I do feel there\u2019s more we can achieve, and I would like to see a greater diversity within our community, including more women in science and also increased opportunities for scientists or students studying science all around the globe.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s your favourite (quasi-)particle?
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I have a background in experimental particle physics, and because some tensions between experimental observations and theory, the so-called Standard Model of Particle Physics, have emerged over the past few years in the flavour sector, I would go for the hypothetical leptoquark, which is a candidate for explaining those anomalies. Plus, those could mediate a decay I was searching for with colleagues from the LHCb experiment. Basically, a leptoquark can turn a quark into a lepton (e.g. an electron) and vice versa.<\/p>\n

What is your non-scientifically accurate guilty pleasure (could be film\/series\/book)?
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I love Star Wars, and my favourite is \u2018The Return of the Jedi\u2019. When the new movies started coming out, I was so excited – there\u2019s nothing like watching the Millenium Falcon jump into hyperspace and then there are so many awesome female characters!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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