Bio
Dr. Kiersten Ruisard started working at ORNL as a Shull Fellow in 2018. She is currently a staff scientist in the Accelerator Physics Group in the Research Accelerator Division, Neutron Sciences Directorate. She holds a grant through the DOE Early Career Research Program (2021 cohort), which supports her work measuring high dimensional ion beam distributions and improving simulation models at the SNS Beam Test Facility.
She received her PhD from the University of Maryland College Park in 2018 and her BSc. from Rutgers University in 2012. Her dissertation, which was supported by a NSF fellowship, focused on space charge effects in a low-energy electron ring, and included design of a strongly nonlinear lattice for resonance damping.
Kiersten is interested in sustaining and strengthening the accelerator physics community, and as such has been involved in conference organizing, served on the executive board of the APS-DPB, and takes on outreach activities as they arise. Students interested in learning more about working in accelerator physics research should not hesitate to reach out.