Margaret joined the Central Laser Facility in 1997 after achieving
a BSc in Physics from Imperial College, University of London. In the time since, Margaret, collaborating
with the CLF user community, has designed, realised and conducted experiments
in Vulcan target areas West, East, Petawatt and Gemini Target Area 2. In
addition to this Margaret implements facility developments and trains young
scientists including sandwich course students, PhD and Post Doctoral users of
the facilities. Margaret has amassed a
great wealth of experience in experiment design and facility operations and she
is currently the operations manager for Vulcan High Power Laser Target Areas, overseeing
and giving hands on support to the whole programme of scheduled experiments and
facility developments. Her main areas of
specific expertise are long pulse based plasma physics experiments along with time
integrated and time resolved x-ray spectroscopy diagnostics.