Kathryn R Hamilton

Kathryn R Hamilton is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado at Denver, a position she has held since Fall 2022. She was previously a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, where she worked alongside Prof. Klaus Bartschat on applying R-Matrix methods to treat a variety of atomic physics problems. She obtained her PhD in 2019 under the supervision of Dr. Andrew Brown and Prof. Hugo van der Hart at Queen’s University Belfast with a thesis entitled “R-Matrix calculations for ultrafast two-colour spectroscopy of noble gas atoms”. Her current research focuses on observing and controlling multielectron dynamics in atoms exposed to external laser fields, and electron collisions with atomic species. When she is not running code on supercomputers all over the world, she likes to play traditional Irish music on the violin, harp, and banjo, and domesticate feral cats. Both activities produce very similar sounds.