Dr Kirrily Rule working on TAIPAN’s powerful 12 Tesla magnet
Welcome to Kirrily Rule (ANSTO), who joins FLEET as a new Partner Investigator.
Dr Kirrily Rule is an internationally-recognised leader in understanding low-dimensional and ‘frustrated’ magnetic materials.
At ANSTO, she is one of three instrument scientists responsible for ANSTO’s triple-axis spectrometer TAIPAN , which provides highly detailed information of collective motions of atoms in solids, including phase transitions.
Within FLEET, Kirrily will provide expertise in conducting experiments at ANSTO’s world-leading nuclear and synchrotron beam characterisation facilities for FLEET partner researchers. She is currently working with CI Xiaolin Wang and AI David Cortie in FLEET’s Enabling technology A, atomically thin materials.
Her own research focuses on low-dimensional, ‘frustrated’ magnetic materials, which show intriguing magnetic behaviour at low temperatures and high magnetic fields. As well as triple-axis spectroscopy she uses high-resolution time-of-flight methods, combined with extreme sample environments such as dilution temperatures and high magnetic fields.
Previous research has included elastic and inelastic neutron scattering experiments at NIST in the USA, at the Canadian Neutron Source in Chalk River, and as an instrument scientist for the cold-neutron triple-axis spectrometer FLEX at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin.
Kirrily is a member of the Executive of the Australian Institute of Physics, giving her access to a wide range of physics researchers around the country.
The Australian Nuclear Science Technology Organisation (ANSTO) is a partner organisation of FLEET.