P-2 Extreme Fluids Team at
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Erin Connor received a PhD from the University of Colorado, Boulder in December 2020. Previously, she received a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Notre Dame, and an M.S. in environmental engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Erin also worked at Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, NM, as a wet etch engineer in their silicon and semiconductor device fabrication facility. Throughout her research experience she has used quantitative laser- and chemical- based techniques to understand scalar transport in different fluid media from the nanoscale to environmental scales.
Erin joined the Extreme Fluids team as a postdoc in January 2021 mainly working with the VST. Her work collaboratively addresses turbulent mixing phenomena and shock-turbulence interactions in variable density fluid conditions. In particular, her experiments create and characterize repeatable initial conditions preceding the growth of Richtmyer-Meshkov instabilities.
