She is not by far the only female Russian scientist who works at this mammoth research center located on the French-Swiss border and known for one of the modern science's most ambitious, expensive and sensation-prone experiments: the Large Hadron Collider.
An international lab boasting some of today's most advanced facilities, CERN hosts 8,000 visiting scholars (80 percent of the Center's entire staff) from 85 nations and 580 institutes and universities from around the world.
As post-Soviet Russian science continues to face a number of problems, mainly due to the lack of research funding, CERN has become a great workplace for the country's aspiring physicists of all ages.
An estimated 200 scientists from Russia's top nuclear physics research institutes are employed there full time today, and more than 876 collaborate with CERN on the visiting basis. Several generations of female Russian physicists ahe worked at CERN.
"Women are very curious by nature, so a woman physicist is not so different from a woman in a humanities field," said Irina Sheyber with a quick smile when asked what it's like to build a career in the area of science that is still largely dominated by men.
She said she is already thinking of having a baby in the near future. "I'm already 30 years old, so it's just about time," Shreyber said. "But I hope to be able to work until it's time to give birth. At CERN, it's not that hard, one can work from home and there are kindergartens just next to our labs."
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source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100720/ap_on_re_us/us_freeway_shootout
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