
Zahra Desperrier, who has just spent six months as an intern with the ITER Magnet Division, obtained her Master's in fusion 27 years after graduating from Engineering School.
One is never too experienced to go back to school. Take Zahra Desperrier for instance. She had been working as an engineer in electro-mechanics for more than 25 years when she decided to join the Fusion Master's program at Université de Provence in Marseille. "There's a moment in your career when you long for change and renewed challenges," she says. "Going into fusion, with the perspective of working one day for ITER, was a way of answering that need."