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Suzie Sheehy
Senior Lecturer and Baker/ANSTO Fellow
University of Melbourne
Visiting Lecturer
University of Oxford
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Biography
Suzie Sheehy is a physicist, science communicator and academic who divides her time between her research groups at the University of Melbourne and University of Oxford. Her research addresses both curiosity-driven and applied areas and is currently focused on developing new particle accelerators for applications in medicine.
An award-winning public speaker, presenter and science communicator, Suzie is dedicated to sharing science beyond the academic community. Her 2018 TED talk has been viewed over 1.9M times and she has been an expert TV presenter for a number of Discovery Channel shows including four seasons of Impossible Engineering. In her talks and shows, Sheehy loves to bring real-life demonstrations and experiments, and she has shared these with hundreds of thousands of audience members. In 2022 she released 'The Matter of Everything', her first popular science book.