Bio
I am a high-pressure physicist working at the Spallation Neutron Source, part of the Neutron Scattering Division. I joined Oak Ridge in 2024, after working at the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source in the United Kingdom. I am now an instrument scientist on BL-3 (the SNAP diffractometer), the United State's dedicated high-pressure neutron diffractometer. I am a crystallographer, interested in measuring structure-property relationships in a wide range of materials, including Li-based compounds, hydrides, perovskite-structures, and materials demonstrating negative thermal-expansion/linear compressibility.
I graduated as a physicist from the University of Edinburgh in 2012, and started working in high-pressure neutron diffraction as a PhD student at the Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions in Edinburgh, as a joint student with the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source.