Emma Rice

Emma Rice

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This is me.
Education
  • UC Berkeley (2022-present)
  • Ohio University (B.S., 2022)
Honors
  • NE Departmental Fellow (2022)
  • Goldwater Scholar (2021)
Academic Advisors
  • Heather Crawford
  • Lee Bernstein
Other Details
Email emmarice(at)berkeley.edu
Github emmarice
ORCiD 0000-0001-5704-7430

I'm a graduate student at UC Berkeley studying nuclear engineering. Since the summer of 2020, I have worked with the Nuclear Structure Group under Dr. Heather Crawford at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. My research interests include gamma-ray spectroscopy to study the structure of neutron-rich nuclei in the N=40 Island of Inversion.

Contents
  • Life and Education
  • Publications
  • See also

Life and Education

I grew up on a farm in rural Ohio.

I completed my B.S. in physics from the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University in the spring of 2022. My undergraduate thesis involved the analysis of in-beam gamma-ray spectroscopy data from NSCL in 2019. My analysis focused on high-spin 66Fe, of interest due to its location in the N=40 Island of Inversion.

In the fall of 2022 I began my PhD in the Nuclear Engineering department at UC Berkeley. My dissertation is on coulomb excitation of neutron-rich Fe.

Outside of academics, I like to run, read, and go camping with my wife and our dog. I also enjoy learning about the history of physics, especially its development in the pre-Columbian Americas, during the Islamic Golden Age, and (more recent) the details surrounding the Landau school.

Publications

2022: Structure of 43P and 42Si in a two-level shape-coexistence model [link]

See also