Ryan
Sinéad grew up in Aberdeen, Scotland. She graduated from the University of St. Andrews with a first class honours MPhys in experimental physics in 2018. As an undergraduate, she worked on projects in the fields of synthetic optics, cold atoms and Kerr lens modelocked laser design. In 2017, she completed a semester exchange at the College of William & Mary where she worked on a project to design an ECDL laser. That summer she completed an internship with the magnetic measurement team at Diamond Light Source synchrotron. She began her graduate studies at the University of Colorado Boulder in the summer of 2018. In spring 2019 she joined the KM group to work in the magnetics team. Her hobbies include cooking, travelling, hiking, and climbing.
Honors & Awards
- Best Oral Award at the 2021 A-round-the-Clock Around-the-World Magnetics conference
Seagate Technology
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.