Biography:
Margie is a Physics Ph.D. student and NSF GRFP Fellow here at CU Boulder. She works in the Ion Storage Group at NIST on a new project to build a nuclear atomic clock with Thorium ions and uses it for precision measurements of interesting fundamental physics. She went to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for undergrad where she majored in both physics and math and most of her research experience was in astrophysics and cosmology. In her free time, she enjoys climbing, cycling, and photography.