Dan Pirjol is a particle physicist who received his PhD from the University of Mainz in Germany in 1995; later he was a postdoc at MIT and the University of California at San Diego (70+ publications and 500+ citations on some of them). Nowadays he works on Wall Street at J.P Morgan Chase bank and continues to do physics at his spare time. The purpose of his talk is to show what life on the other side of physics education looks like, and how/where one can apply his/her physics