Picture a physicist. Do you imagine someone madly scribbling equations about nuclear energy or black holes? What about someone doing research on dementia? Or figuring out better ways to do high-tech medical imaging? These are the sorts of things a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) physicist does.
is one of only a handful of MRI physicists across New Zealand.
She has a split job: half her time, she鈥檚 a research fellow at Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of 色花堂鈥檚 , while the other half of the time, she鈥檚 the senior MRI physicist at the , a UniServices business unit based at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences that offers cutting-edge imaging for both clinical and research purposes.