My name is Valentina Zaccardi. I'm the team leader in Geoscience in the Elgin Franklin team.
My team is involved in geoscience studies, so our objective is to find oil and gas barrels and new energy for the company.
My team is composed of three people with three different skills. We have one geologist, one geophysicist, and one reservoir engineer. And these are the three fundamental skills in order to characterise an opportunity.
As a team, we have a few challenges because we are in the energy transition environment, so we need to try to be still resilient to these changing times and innovation in order to be on top of it.
I think what my team does is really important because we think about energy, what we have in our house, but actually there is no end without the start, and this starts with my team. It starts with geology, geophysics and reservoir engineering. You cannot have energy without them.
Regarding my career journey, it started when I joined the Master of Science in IFP School in Paris in Reservoir Geoscience and Engineering. And I've been since then really passionate about geoscience.
So I've been in TotalEnergies for more than 13 years now, doing the same job in the same domain, in geoscience, and even if now I'm a manager, so it's slightly different than when I was just a technical role, I'm still as passionate as I was the first day.
What I can see is that in TotalEnergies and in the industry in general, there are much more women than before when I started.
There are many women in the conferences I meet, and it's so nice to see that there are so many great examples of people, women with huge skills, great attitude. So many people that we can look at and we can take example from and take learnings from them and feel not alone.
Sometimes people refer to imposter syndrome, which means something like women waiting too long before applying to a position or waiting to be overqualified for going to an interview. And this is really wrong, I think, because we shouldn't feel different than men. We should be confident with ourselves and go for what we want.
Women add a huge value to technical roles because they diversify the team, they bring new energy by having a different point of view and bringing different answers and solutions to problems.
