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episode 63: Felix Seidel
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Felix Seidel is a Data Scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Caltech. He shares with us how ETH Zurich influenced him, and continues to be important for him today.
You could say that ETH Zurich is the thread red connecting the dots in Felix Seidel’s career. A Data Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) at Caltech in California, Felix’ story begins with his passion for flying. Tune in to find out how his dream career in aviation turned into a scientific one, for which ETH was the place to be. Along the way, Felix explains how to work with satellite data, why he never became an astronaut, and why it’s important to sometimes fail, and learn from it.
This is his story.
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