Abigail Hellman
PhD in Physics
Year of study: 2
- Institute for Condensed Matter and Complex Systems
- School of Physics and Astronomy
Contact details
- Email: a.f.hellman@ed.ac.uk
Background
Abby is a PhD student in the School of Physics and Astronomy and a member of the PET is Wonderful research group within the Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. She completed her BSc degree in Physics at the University of Virginia in the USA in May of 2022. Throughout her undergraduate degree, she was involved in a variety of medical physics research projects including quality assurance checks for proton beam radiation therapy and machine learning for x-ray tomosynthesis image interpretation. She also took part in nuclear physics research, building and testing gas electron multiplier detectors and developing a streaming readout data acquisition system. Her PhD will involve network analysis of total-body PET data, looking to further the field of systems biology and explore the systemic effects of diseases.