So I work in experimental particle physics and our daily tasks involve using particle collision simulation tools(mg5+pythia+delphes), distribute them on cluster

So I work in experimental particle physics and our daily tasks involve using particle collision simulation tools(mg5+pythia+delphes), distribute them on clusters, construct jet images using ROOT and finally experiment with neural networks on those jet images. So as people pointed out, what we do had a lot in common with the industry (where we learn from as well), which explains why many people involved in this kind of research could land a data scientist job. An interesting thing I've noticed is that many phD students in our group (with little CS background) waste lots of time on getting the software running (either locally or on cluster). You guessed it, we are trying to exploit the power of docker to make it easier for researchers to run those simulation tools.