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Cv: Erin O'sullivan CV: ERIN O'SULLIVAN Stockholm University Stockholm, Sweden [email protected] http://icecube.wisc.edu/~eosullivan Postdoctoral Appointments • 04/2017 { present: Postdoctoral Research Associate, IceCube and Hyper-Kamiokande collabo- rations, Stockholm University, Sweden • 05/2014 { 03/2017: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Super-Kamiokande and Hyper-Kamiokande collaborations, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA Education • 09/2008 { 04/2014: PhD, Queen's University, SNO+ collaboration, Kingston, ON, Canada, Advisor - Mark Chen Grants • PI of a Stockholm University - University of Tokyo cooperation grant, valued at 150,000 SEK Positions of leadership • 2016 { present: Convener of the Hyper-Kamiokande software group • 2018 { present: Swedish delegate on the Hyper-Kamiokande International Board of Representa- tives • 2017 { 2018: Coordinator of the public release of the Hyper-Kamiokande design report • Referee for the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics since 2018 • 2017 { present: Internal IceCube reviewer for an analysis searching for coincidences between fast radio bursts and MeV-scale neutrinos • 2018 { present: One of four members on the task force responsible for determining the configu- ration of photosensors to be used in the final design of the Hyper-Kamiokande detector • 2015 { 2016: Review panel member for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program • 2009 { 2014: Director of Graduate Student Members, Canadian Association of Physicists Invited presentations (16 invited presentations since 2015, including 2 international summer schools) • New windows to the Universe symposium, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden, November 2018. \Neutrino astronomy with IceCube" • International Workshop on Next Generation Nucleon Decay and Neutrino Detectors (NNN), Uni- versity of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, November 2018. \Current and future prospects of solar and supernova neutrinos" • OKC@10 symposium, Artipelag, Stockholm, Sweden, September 2018. \Supernova Neutrinos" • 16th Conference on Flavor Physics and CP violation, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India, July 2018. \Latest results from IceCube and status of future astrophysical neutrino experiments" • SNOLAB seminar, SNOLAB, Sudbury, Canada, April 2018.\Traversing the astrophysical neu- trino landscape from MeV to PeV" • Oskar Klein Centre Colloquium, Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm, Sweden, February 2018.\Travers- ing the astrophysical neutrino landscape from MeV to PeV" • International Workshop on Neutrinos from Accelerators (NuFact), Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, September 2017.\Status of the Hyper-Kamiokande Experiment" • Kavli Summer Program in Astrophysics, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 2017.\Neutrinos: Successes and challenges of detection" • International Workshop on Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering in the Few-GeV Region (NuInt), The Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada, June 2017.\Low Energy Neutrino Experiment Overview" • Supernova at Hyper-K workshop, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, February 2017.\Detecting Supernova Neutrinos in Hyper-Kamiokande" • Heavy Quarks and Leptons International Conference, Virginia Institute of Technology, Blacks- burg, Virginia, May 2016.\Solar and Atmospheric Neutrino Results in Super-Kamiokande" • Supernova@DUNE workshop, Virginia Institute of Technology, Blacksburg, Virginia, March 2016.\Detecting Supernova Neutrinos in Hyper-Kamiokande" • NuPhys: Prospects in Neutrino Physics, Barbican Centre, London, UK, December 2015.\Atmo- spheric Neutrino Status" • High Energy Physics Seminar, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, December 2015.\Neu- trino Astrophysics with Super-Kamiokande" • Southeastern Section of the American Physical Society (SESAPS) Meeting, Mobile, University of South Alabama, Alabama, November 2015. \The Story of Neutrinos and the Universe" • Caltech Gravitational Wave Astrophysics School, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, July 2015. \Neutrinos and Neutrino Detection" Teaching and Student supervision • Supervising Felix Malmenbeck, a KTH masters student, who is examining how neutrino mass hierarchy can be determined using supernova neutrino observations in IceCube, Winter 2018 - present. Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. • Supervised Emile Demir, a Stockholm University bachelor student from the astronomy depart- ment, who looked at methods to localize a supernova using neutrino detection, Fall 2017 and Winter 2018. Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. • Co-supervised a PhD student project at the Kavli Summer Program in Astrophysics, determining if we can measure the rotation of a supernova progenitor using neutrinos and gravitational waves, Summer 2017. Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark. • Supervised Nathan Perreau, a bachelor-level summer student, who implemented the outer de- tector into the Hyper-Kamiokande Monte Carlo code, Summer 2015. Duke University, Durham, USA. • Laboratory Teaching Assistant. Introductory Physics for Engineers, Fall 2011 - Winter 2013. Queen's University, Canada. • Laboratory Teaching Assistant. Measurement, Instrumentation and Experimental Design, Win- ter 2011. Queen's University, Canada. • Senior Teaching Assistant. Introductory Physics Biologists, Fall 2009 - Winter 2010. Queen's University, Canada. • Tutorial/Laboratory Teaching Assistant. Introductory Physics for Biologists, Fall 2008 - Winter 2010. Queen's University, Canada. University Pedagogical Education • Professional development course: Teaching and Learning, expected completion in December 2018. Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. 7.5 ECTS credits, 28 classroom hours. • Gender and Teaching in Higher Education, October 2018. Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. 1.5 ECTS credits, 3 classroom hours. • 12 Steps to Succeed as a Teacher, November 2018. Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. 1.5 ECTS credits, 3 classroom hours. • Object-based Learning Workshop, November 2018. Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden. 1.5 ECTS credits, 3 classroom hours. Organization of Scientific Meetings • Canada-America-Mexico (CAM) Graduate Student Conference 2013: program committee chair, international organizing committee chair • CAM 2011: international organizing committee member.
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