Genevieve Geehan is from Sydney, Australia. They completed their bachelor studies in applied physics at the University of Technology Sydney. Preferring to move into the more theoretical side of physics, they followed their bachelors studies with an honours degree at the University of New South Wales. The main focus of Genevieve's honours research was the calculation of the electronic bridge transition rate of lead-229. They also investigated the possibility of dominant electronic bridge transition in muonic atoms.
Before beginning a PhD, Genevieve is exploring their research interests by continuing in the same field of research as their honours degree in a research assistant position within the LISA network.
Outside of work Genevieve loves to go out bush to go hiking, climbing and swimming. They also enjoy many creative pursuits such as knitting, ceramics and printmaking.
Provide highly accurate and reliable predictions of atomic properties of actinides and superheavy elements and their ions for support of experimental research and for theoretical study where no experiment is planned or possible.
High accuracy and reliable predictions of transition energies and rates, level lifetimes, hyperfine structure parameters, ionization potentials and electron affinities. Initially we will investigate Ac, Th, Pa, and U (corresponding to immediate experimental interest); we will then carry on to the heavier actinides and superheavy elements. We will use, in a complementary manner, two state-of-the-art relativistic approaches for the calculations: the coupled cluster and the configuration interaction. The required software developments will be also carried out in the framework of the project.
This Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) Innovative Training Networks (ITN) receives funding from the European Union’s H2020 Framework Programme under grant agreement no. 861198