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Professor Alix McCollam

Biography

Alix McCollam is originally from Dublin, but grew up and went to school in Bradford, West Yorkshire, in the UK. She completed an undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences at Trinity College Dublin, in 2000, and then moved to Cambridge, UK, for a PhD at the Cavendish Laboratory. Following her PhD she worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Physics at the University of Toronto, Canada. In 2009, she moved to the High Field Magnet Laboratory (HFML-FELIX) and Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, where she was first a Marie Curie Fellow, and then a faculty member at Radboud University and senior staff scientist at HFML-FELIX. Alix moved to UCC as the SALI Professor of Quantum Technology in 2023.

Research Interests

Understanding novel phases of quantum matter that arise because of strong electronic correlations.
Development of experimental techniques, especially thermodynamic and transport measurements.

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Professor Alix McCollam

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Professor Alix McCollam

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SALI Professor of Quantum Technology

Qualifications:

B.A.(Hons) Natural Science, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Ph.D, Thermodynamic Properties of Unconventional Superconductors. Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK. University Teaching Qualification (BKO), Radboud University, Netherlands

School of Physics

Scoil na Fisice

Room 213 (Physics Office), 2nd floor, Kane Science Building, University College Cork, Ireland.,

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