Anna Herlihy

I have just begun my PhD at the University of Warwick, having graduated from the University of St Andrews with a Master’s degree in Materials Chemistry. My interest in crystallography stems from a placement year spent at Diamond Light Source, at the high-resolution PXRD beamline, I11 where I investigated a sol-gel method of synthesising interstellar silicate analogues, and analysed them using synchrotron techniques. I joined the Senn group, co-supervised by Dr Nick Funnell at ISIS, in October 2018 to pursue my interest in crystallography, utilising synchrotron techniques for structural characterisation. My research will focus on investigating pressure tuning of order-disorder behaviour in functional materials, such as BaTiO3, utilising total scattering methods on instruments such as PEARL, the high-pressure beamline at ISIS.