Dr. Linck received a M.S. in Physics from San Jose State University (SJSU) in 2013. While enrolled at SJSU, she participated in ongoing quantum foundations research. As a part of that work, she helped prove that the classical Lagrangian which describes the motion of Foucault’s pendulum can be used to describe the behavior of an electron’s spin state in an arbitrary, time varying magnetic field.
Dr. Linck received a Ph.D. in Physics from Indiana University Bloomington (IU) in 2021. While enrolled at IU, she performed experimental high energy particle physics research as a part of the ATLAS Collaboration. While working with ATLAS, she served as an on-call shifter, served as a member of the jet calibration team, measured the background contribution to an important physics process (the inclusive production of two opposite sign W-bosons in the mixed leptonic channel) and determined that neural networks and the largest yet recorded ATLAS dataset (full Run2) could be used to measure a highly suppressed and previously unmeasured process (the vector boson scattering production of two opposite sign W-bosons which decay leptonically). To better facilitate her studies, she was stationed at CERN, just outside Geneva, Switzerland, for four years.
In early 2022, following the completion of her graduate studies, Dr. Linck became a research scientist at Radiance Technologies in Huntsville, AL. While there, she worked on the Optical Radiation Bioeffects and Safety (ORBS) project. This project sought to determine damage thresholds for laser-tissue interactions. As a first step towards that goal, Dr. Linck modeled the interaction between laser light and skin using a multilayer Monte Carlo simulation which models laser-tissue interactions for skin tissues of known optical properties.
In early 2024, Dr. Linck started at UAH in the Center for Applied Optics. As a part of her work at UAH, Dr. Linck is studying various directed energy technologies. Her current work is primarily focused on modeling turbulence.
