My route to Professor: Cristina Lazzeroni

- My Italian originStudied physics and met my future (British) husband

- Moved to UK with my first post-doc in Edinburgh, then CambridgeDiscovered direct CP violation in experiment@ CERN

- Royal Society University Fellowshipin Cambridge to continued CPV and rare phenomena studies

- in 2007 moved to Birmingham with lecturer appointment Joined experiment at Large Hadron Collider at CERN

- in 2011 got ERC Grant to start a new experiment NA62Promotion to Reader

- in 2014 NA62 started taking data and works well - now established in UKAlso joined another LHC experiment on CPV

- in 2015 Promotion to Professor

SAV:Small  Angle  Photon

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(Cherenkovkaon tagger)

Vacuum: p<10–5 mbar

- From 2009 serious involvement in Public Communicationof Science - part of my promotion cases

Not everything is ideal… My husband moved here with me with a research job but funding finished so he movedback to Cambridge to his previous research job.But it still works well, despite the difficult logistics.

- I decided to study Physics when I was a teenager and had no real sense for it- But I really liked it !!

On reflection, best time was as a Post-Doc, despite the job uncertaintyFree to explore the research panorama and the world