The YGT experience in videos
What is like to be a YGT at ESA ? Watch the video interviews of ESA Young Graduate Trainees to find out more about our YGT programme and life at ESA.
Priya
Priya Patel, System Engineer, talks about her experience as a Young Graduate Trainee (YGT) working on the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna Mission (LISA).
Nicolas
Nicolas Soubirous, Spacecraft Operations Engineer, shares his Young Graduate Trainee (YGT) experience at ESA, working in the EarthCARE, SEOSat & SMOS Missions Operations Unit at ESOC, Germany.
Ina
Ina Cheibas talks about her Young Graduate Trainee (YGT) experience in the Advanced Concepts Team at ESTEC, Netherlands, where her role was to propose and develop additive manufacturing techniques for a space habitat with in situ resources.
Sébastien
Sébastien Perrault talks about his YGT experience as a System Engineer working the Clean Space Office at ESOC, Germany.
Matyas
Matyas Hazadi shares his YGT experience as a system engineer in the Lunar Resource Lander Team working in ESTEC, the Netherlands.
Mari
Meet Mari, who shares her experience as a Young Graduate Trainee in the Legal Services Department and Executive Secretary for the European Centre for Space Law.
Mircea
Meet Mircea! He's 27 years old and comes from Romania. He works at ESA as a Young Graduate Trainee (YGT) in the Materials' Physics and Chemistry section, where he analyses how materials used could contaminate the sensitive surfaces of a spacecraft.
Chris
Chris from the UK shares his experience as an ESA YGT. He has a background in Materials Engineering and in this video, he shows the set-up that he has been using in the lab at ESTEC to test stress corrosion cracking in spacecraft propellant tanks.
Aleksandra
Aleksandra, 24, from Latvia, shares her experience as an ESA YGT. In this video, the Aerospace Engineer speaks about her work in the thermal analysis and verification section, working with measurements at cryogenic temperatures. Aleks also shows her experiment set up in the Mechanical Systems Laboratory (MSL).
Stella
Stella, an astrophysicist from Estonia, shares her experience as a YGT at ESA working with data provided by the Gaia mission’s team to model the movements of stars.
