Emma E. McBride

Emma Elizabeth McBride came to SLAC as a Peter Paul Ewald Postdoctoral Fellow. Through an award from the Scottish Doctoral Training Centre in Condensed Matter Physics, she received her PhD at the Centre of Science at Extreme Conditions (CSEC) at the University of Edinburgh, UK, focusing on using static and dynamic compression techniques to investigate the alkali elements. Following her PhD she worked as a postdoctoral research at DESY, Germany, on the Helmholtz International Beamline for Extreme Fields (HIBEF), a user consortium aiming to provide high-powered long and short pulse laser, pulsed magnetic fields, and diamond anvil cells to the HED instrument at European XFEL. During this time she served as the secretary of the HIBEF Scientific Advisory Committee. Her current research focusses on performing static and dynamic compression experiments on hard X-ray FELS, with particular attention paid to using in situ X-ray diffraction to probe extreme pressure and temperature states on nanosecond timescales. After her Panofsky fellowship in the High Energy Density Science division she assumed a new position at Queens University, Belfast, UK.