Abroad for Research?

Numerous possibilities nowadays exist to study and do research abroad. What are they, what does it really mean and what is the impact of such an move on life and career? Actual examples will be drawn from personal experience, starting from atomic physics at home, continuing on nuclear and intermediate energy physics and reaching to very high energy physics in foreign labs in a bid to understand the structure of matter and its interactions.

Positions: B.Sc. in Physics at Université Laval in Quèbec City M.Sc. in Intermediate Energy Physics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver on a pion absorption experiment at the TRIUMF research center Ph.D. in Intermediate Energy Physics (1984) at the Polytechnic School of Zürich (ETHZ) in Switzerland on a muon decay experiment at SIN (now Paul Scherrer Institute) Research Associate with McGill University at the CERN research center in Geneva on the NA34 experiment (pp and pN physics) 1984-1987 Research Physicist for the DESY research center in Hamburg, Germany on the ZEUS experiment (ep physics), 1988-1990 Since 1991, Research Scientist with the Institute of Particle Physics (IPP) of Canada and Professor of Physics at McGill University Invitations: Invited physicist at DESY in Hamburg, Germany, for 1997-1998 (1 year). Invited researcher at the KEK research institute in Tsukuba, Japan in 2001 (4 months) Invited physicist at DESY in Hamburg, Germany, for 2003-2004 (1 year). Invited by DAAD Germany as visiting scientist at the Max-Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, Germany, in 2016 (3 months) Recent International Projects: ZEUS experiment: leader of the McGill group from 1992 to 2012 (QCD, jets, proton structure functions) ATLAS experiment: leader of the McGill group