Bio
I’m a condensed matter scientist with over 10 years of research experience, from undergraduate to PhD, studying materials under extreme pressure and temperature. I joined ORNL as a postdoctoral researcher where I worked to develop techniques for single crystal sample preparation and data collection as well as data reduction methods for time-of-flight diffraction with the ultimate goal of studying the structure of H2, D2, and other light systems under high pressure. Now that I'm part of the BL-03 SNAP beamline team officially, I continue my interest in this development and much more. I'll see you at your next experiment here!
Professional Experience
Synchrotron and User Facility Work Experience
Oak Ridge National Laboratory SNAP – BL-3—SNS 9 Shifts May 2022
Advanced Photon Source at ANL Beamline 16-BM-D (HPCAT) 12 Shifts April 2022
University of Massachusetts, Amherst James Walsh XRD Rigaku 90 Hours March 2022
University of Massachusetts, Amherst James Walsh XRD Rigaku 90 Hours February 2022
Advanced Photon Source at ANL Beamline 16-BM-D (HPCAT) 9 Shifts October 2021
Advanced Photon Source at ANL Beamline 16-BM-D (HPCAT) 18 Shifts Nov 2019
Advanced Photon Source at ANL Beamline 16-BM-D (HPCAT) 9 Shifts July 2019
Advanced Photon Source at ANL Beamline 13-ID-D (GSECARS) 6 Shifts June 2018
Advanced Photon Source at ANL Beamline 16-ID-B (HPCAT) 9 Shifts July 2015
Advanced Light Source at LBNL Beamline 7.3.1 (High-Pressure) 9 Shifts April 2015
Relevant Research Experience
UNLV: Postdoctoral researcher
- June 2023—April 2024
- Four-probe, low-temperature DAC with in situ Raman Spectroscopy
- 1um laser heating and pyrometry user interface development
UNLV: Ashkan Salamat & Keith Lawler PI (PhD Student Researcher)
- May 2019—May 2023
- Grüneisen Tensor, electronic transitions, anisotropy; oxides + XAS
LLNL Internship: Elissaios Stavrou PI (Graduate Student Researcher)
- May—Aug 2018
- α-glycine Raman and structural characterization
UNLV: Ashkan Salamat PI (Master’s Student Researcher)
- Aug 2016—May 2019
- Resistive Heating development (testing on simple organics and Sn)
Ripple Neuroscience (Hardware Tester)
- Feb—Aug 2016
- Statistics and characterization of devices
University of Utah: Shanti Deemyad PI (Undergraduate Researcher)
- Jan 2013—May 2016
- Four-probe, low-temperature DAC
Awards
- Travel grant for ACNS 2024
- GRC/GRS registration waiver awarded 2022
- Best poster award at AIRAPT 2017
- UROP and Department travel award to travel to APS at Argonne National Lab (2015)
- REU Summer Program Funding Award (2015)
- Martin Hiatt Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award (2015)
- Parmley Scholarship (2015)
- Best Undergraduate Oral Presentation at APS Four Corners (2014)
- UROP Assistantship for two semesters (2013-2014)
- New Century Scholarship for four semesters (2012-2014)
- ACCESS Program for Women in Science (Summer 2012-Spring 2013)
- Honors at Entrance Scholarship (2012-2016)
Education
University of Nevada, Las Vegas Ph.D. Physics 05/2019 to 05/2023
University of Nevada, Las Vegas M.Sc. Physics 08/2016 to 05/2019
University of Utah B.Sc. Physics 06/2012 to 05/2016
Utah Valley University A.Sc. General Completed 04/2012
Professional Service
Reviewer for Physical Review B (2024-2025) and Communications Chemistry (2025)
Member of the Interim AIRAPT Ethics Committee
Served as co-chair of the Research at high-pressure Gordon Research Seminar 2024
Served as discussion leader at Research at high-pressure Gordon Research Seminar and Conference 2022
Professional Affiliations
AIRAPT member (2017 and 2023 attendance)
Women in High-Pressure member
Publications
Other Publications
Electronic topological transitions in cadmium at pressure studied via theoretical and
experimental x-ray absorption spectroscopy
J.K. Hinton, D. Schacher, W. Lee, G.A. Smith, E. Siska, C. Park, P.B. Ellison, S. Cushing, C.P Schwartz, K.V. Lawler, A. Salamat
Physical Review B 110, 205118 (7 NOV 2024)
J.K. Hinton, D. Durkee, M. White, N. Dasenbrock-Gammon, G.A. Smith, E. Snider, D. Smith, C. Childs, K.V. Lawler, A. Salamat
Physical Review Materials 8, 104604, (16 OCT 2024)
CO2 laser heating system for in situ radial x-ray absorption at 16-BM-D at the Advanced Photon
Source
C. Childs, D. Smith, G. Smith, P. Ellison, D. Sneed, J. Hinton, E. Siska, J. Pigott, E. Rod, W. O'Donnell, R. Salem, B.
Sturtevant, R. Scharff, N. Velisavljevic, C. Park, and A. Salamat
Review of Scientific Instruments 93 (8), 083901, (2022)
Prevalence of pretransition disordering in the rutile-to-CaCl2 phase transition of GeO2
G. A. Smith, D. Schacher, J.K. Hinton, D. Sneed, C. Park, S. Petitgirard, K.V. Lawler, A. Salamat
Physical Review B 104 (13) 134107, (2021)
J.K. Hinton, C. Childs, D. Smith, P.B. Ellison, K.V. Lawler and A. Salamat
Physical Review B 102 (18), 184112, (2020)
J.K. Hinton, S. Clarke, B.A. Steele, E. Greenberg, V.B Prakapenka, M. Kunz, M.P. Kroonblawd, E. Stavrou
CrystEngComm 21 (30), 4457-4464, (2019)
Pressure-Tunable Visible-Range Band Gap in the Ionic Spinel Tin Nitride
J. S. C. Kearney, M. Graužinyté, D. Smith, D. Sneed, C. Childs, J. Hinton, C. Park, J. S. Smith, E. Kim, S. D. S. Fitch, A. L. Hector, C. J. Pickard, J. A. Flores-Livas,* and A. Salamat
Angewandte Chemie International Edition 57 (36), 11623-11628, (2018)
Deuterium Isotope Effects in Polymerization of Benzene Under Pressure
W. Cai, M. Dunuwille, J. He, T. Taylor, J.K. Hinton, M. MacLean, J. Molaison, A. dos Santos, S. Sinogeikin, S. Deemyad
The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 8 (8), 1856-1864, (2017)
Superconducting Phase Diagram of 6 Li: Anomalous Isotope Effects in Superconducting Dense Lithium
A.M. Schaeffer, S.R. Temple, J.K. Bishop, S. Deemyad
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (1), 60-64, (2015)
arXiv:1406.4565 (2014)