Sinéad Griffin

Sinéad Majella Griffin (born 1986) is an Irish physicist working at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on high energy physics and condensed matter. She won the 2017 Swiss Physical Society Award in General Physics.

Sinéad Griffin
Born1986 (age 34–35)
Dublin, Ireland
NationalityIrish
Alma materUniversity of California, Santa Barbara
ETH Zurich
Imperial College London
Trinity College, Dublin
Scientific career
FieldsCosmology
Condensed matter theory
InstitutionsLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Early life

Griffin was born in 1986 in Dublin, Ireland.

Education

Griffin studied physics at Trinity College, Dublin, graduating in 2008 with a bachelor's degree in theoretical physics.[1] She moved to Imperial College London for her master's studies, working with Ray Rivers on topological defects in condensed matter and cosmology.[2] She worked at University of California, Santa Barbara for her doctoral studies, studying superconductors and spintronics with Nicola Spaldin.[3] When Nicola Spaldin joined ETH Zurich, Griffin accompanied her, earning a PhD in 2014 looking at the Hubbard model for hexagonal manganites.[4] During her PhD she tested the Kibble–Zurek mechanism in YMnO3.[5] She won the 2015 Materials and Processes (MaP) Award for the best interdisciplinary thesis at ETH Zurich.[6]

Career

In 2015 Griffin joined Jeffrey Neaton's laboratory at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.[7] She was awarded the 2017 Swiss Physical Society award in General Physics for her contributions to material theory.[8] She recognised that multiferroic hexagonal manganites exhibited the same symmetry as those proposed shortly after the Big Bang, testing phenomena that occur on galactic scales with those that occur in a laboratory.[5][8] She is interested in the symmetry-breaking conditions that lead to topological defects.[9][10] She was an invited speaker at the 2018 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Rising Stars in Physics Workshop.[11]

In 2016 she won the Falling Walls lab Bay Area competition looking for future breakthroughs.[12][13] She has appeared in the Uncharted: Berkeley Festival of Ideas.[14] Griffin is also an artist, and has exhibited her work in Ireland, Zurich, London and San Francisco.[15][16][17]

References
  1. "academic bio - sinead griffin | lbl/ucb". sites.google.com. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  2. Sinead, Griffin; Ray, Rivers (November 2009). "Little and Large:Topological Defects in Cosmology and Condensed Matter Theory". APS California Section Meeting Abstracts: F4.002. Bibcode:2009APS..CAL.F4002G.
  3. Griffin, Sinéad M.; Spaldin, Nicola A. (2012-04-16). "Ab initio investigation of FeAs/GaAs heterostructures for potential spintronic and superconducting applications". Physical Review B. 85 (15): 155126. arXiv:1108.2963. Bibcode:2012PhRvB..85o5126G. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.85.155126.
  4. Griffin, S. M; Lilienblum, M; Delaney, K; Kumagai, Y; Fiebig, M; Spaldin, N. A (2012). "From multiferroics to cosmology: Scaling behaviour and beyond in the hexagonal manganites". Physical Review X. 2 (4). arXiv:1204.3785. Bibcode:2012PhRvX...2d1022G. doi:10.1103/PhysRevX.2.041022.
  5. "HISKP: Multiferroics and the Early Universe". www1.hiskp.uni-bonn.de. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  6. "MaP Award". www.map.ethz.ch. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  7. "People - Neaton Group Neaton Group". commons.lbl.gov. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  8. SPG-SPS-SSP. "Swiss Physical Society - SPS Awards 2017". www.sps.ch. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  9. Griffin, Sinéad M.; Spaldin, Nicola A. (2017). "On the relationship between topological and geometric defects". Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. 29 (34): 343001. arXiv:1703.05225. Bibcode:2017JPCM...29H3001G. doi:10.1088/1361-648X/aa7b5c. ISSN 0953-8984. PMID 28643697.
  10. Griffin, Sinéad M.; Reidulff, Mari; Selbach, Sverre M.; Spaldin, Nicola A. (2017-02-22). "Defect Chemistry as a Crystal Structure Design Parameter: Intrinsic Point Defects and Ga Substitution in InMnO3". Chemistry of Materials. 29 (6): 2425–2434. doi:10.1021/acs.chemmater.6b04207. hdl:11250/2467431. ISSN 0897-4756.
  11. "Agenda for 2018 Rising Stars in Physics Workshop at MIT | Rising Stars in Physics". physicsrisingstars.mit.edu. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  12. Walls, Falling (2016-11-11), Falling Walls Lab 2016 - Sinead Griffin - Breaking the Wall of Spintronics, retrieved 2018-05-12
  13. Foundation, Falling Walls. "News | Falling Walls". www.falling-walls.com. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  14. "Sinead Griffin". www.berkeleyideas.com. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  15. "About Me – S. Griffin Art". sgriffinart.com. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  16. ""The Witching Hour" Original Artwork By Sinead Griffin - Contemporary - Paintings - by Vango Art - Original art from emerging artists". Houzz. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
  17. "Events : Practice of Art". art.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2018-05-12.
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