Career fair for mathematics and physics 2024

On February 7, this year's Career Fair for students started with 15 exhibitors, eight lectures and a panel discussion. Students had the opportunity to mingle with prospective employers and listen to alumni sharing their experiences. The Department of Mathematics, Meteorology, Astronomy and Fysikum organised the day.

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15 exhibitors participated during the day, including companies, trade unions and the Departments of Mathematics, Meteorology, Astronomy and Physics. The students had the opportunity to make contact with future employers and to hear from alumni who gave lectures on their experiences of working life.

"We are 16 people who work with the arrangements for the Career Fair and we have organised it for several years. Last year we were at AlbaNova and now we are here at Albano. It's a good opportunity for you students to listen to alumni from different organisations and mingle with prospective employers," said Anders Hagberg, education coordinator at the Department of Mathematics.

The lectures were opened by the Actuarial Association with Jesper Okko, Elin Kull, David Musazi and Julia Holmgren who are alumni and have studied at the Department of Mathematics.
"An actuary calculates insurance risk, financial risk, strategic risk, business risk, operational risk which is used in the pricing of premiums by insurance companies."

FRA is a civilian agency under the Ministry of Defence where they conduct signals intelligence and information security.
"I work as a cryptologist at FRA and studied physics at SU. Then I was an assistant professor at the Faculty of Mathematics and did research in computer science in England," said Viktor.

Ali Leylani is Chief Data Scientist at Gratitude and a member of the Stockholm AI association. He studied mathematics and physics in the Master's programme in theoretical physics. Ali talked about the Dunning-Kruger effect and the impostor syndrome.
"Be confident in your knowledge and humble about what you need to learn. We will live in a data-driven world where you are really needed."

After lunch, the Labour Market Day continued at Albano. Fysikum's education coordinator Malva Rydqvist led the panel discussion with alumni.

Emilia Dunfelt is a security analyst from Truesec, a company working with IT security, which means "predict, percent, detect, respond, recover". Emilia has a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science, a master's degree in mathematics and a master's degree in information security.
Skills in demand: programming, scripting, terminal, bash, powershell.
"It is good to be curious, analytical and accurate."

Julia Eriksson studied in the Bachelor's Programme in Mathematics and Economics and the Master's Programme in Mathematical Statistics. She was first employed at the Biostatistics Unit and is now at the Centre for Pharmaceutical Epidemiology at Karolinska Institutet.
"We extract register data from e.g. the pharmaceutical register, the patient register etc. and we have global research collaborations."

Magnus Ramstedt, bachelor and master in physics. Phd at the Department of Particle Physics at Fysikum. He has worked as a developer since 2005.
"What positions are needed? Developer, data scientist, analyst, engineer.
App developers need to know Android Java/Kotlin, Swift, C++, etc. Server developers need to know Java, Go or Python. If you are a Data Scientist, you need to know SQL, A/B testing, Python."