"The experience showed me other possible paths to follow as a physicist"

Where did you do your internship and what were the tasks?

"I did my internship in Savantic, a technology consultancy firm. I took part in different projects and had multiple kind of tasks: programming, learning about virtual environments, optimising algorithms, learning about state-of-the-art artificial intelligence. Some examples of projects were: Automatising road classification or face recognition."

How well prepared were you for the tasks from your university education?

"I felt quite prepared from the course Machine Learning for Physicists (FK7068) I took in Fysikum the fall semester. However, at the beginning of the internship I did some training to catch up with anything that was not clear."

Do you think the internship will have an impact on you future studies and/or career? 

"Yes, this experience showed me other possible paths to follow as a physicist and I will probably continue working with ML."

Would you recommend other students to do an intership?

"Definitely, it is a great way of getting experience in the industry and another possible interesting jobs for people with a physics background. Since it is quite flexible, students can do the internship on any physics related field, and it is a great opportunity to get to try something you are curious about for a few months."

Did the experience meet your expectations?

"It was just as I expected. I learnt from professionals and got to experience how a physics background can lead to a very different job. I also met a lot of people in the company and they were super nice. It was also fun to participate on activities such as afterworks."