Abstract: In this talk, I will outline how I went from solving Killing spinor equations with pen and paper to a career in coding-intensive Data Science. I'll talk about my experience of working as a Data Scientist for Tesco and how leaving academia didn't mean the end of doing research for me.

Bio: Sebastian completed his PhD in Theoretical Physics at King's in 2019. He then transitioned from the less big data-driven classification of SUGRA backgrounds to a career in computationally heavy machine learning. Since 2020, he's been working as a (by now) Senior Data Scientist at Tesco where he mainly works within the Price Optimisation space and looks after collaborations with academia.