Binnie
Iona grew up in Princeton, New Jersey. She received her bachelor's degree in Physics at Williams College, where she conducted research in ultrafast electron diffraction. She joined the KM group in the summer of 2019, and has worked on many projects with the magnetics and imaging teams. She now studies topological spin textures such as skyrmions, using extreme ultraviolet and soft x-ray light to create 3D maps of their nanoscale spin texture and measure their ultrafast dynamics. Outside of the lab, she co-leads the graduate Women and Gender Minorities in Physics group, and spends her time exploring the Rockies and relaxing with knitting, baking, choir, and D&D. She also enjoys sharing her lifelong love of circus arts.
Honors & Awards
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NSF Graduate Fellowship
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CU Physics Award for Outstanding Service
The Physics Frontiers Centers (PFC) program supports university-based centers and institutes where the collective efforts of a larger group of individuals can enable transformational advances in the most promising research areas. The program is designed to foster major breakthroughs at the intellectual frontiers of physics by providing needed resources such as combinations of talents, skills, disciplines, and/or specialized infrastructure, not usually available to individual investigators or small groups, in an environment in which the collective efforts of the larger group can be shown to be seminal to promoting significant progress in the science and the education of students. PFCs also include creative, substantive activities aimed at enhancing education, broadening participation of traditionally underrepresented groups, and outreach to the scientific community and general public.