ETH - THEORY - Griffin Sinead Majella

2011:	PhD studies, ETH Zürich, Materials Theory Supervisor: Prof. Nicola Spaldin
2010:	PhD studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. Thesis (MS): Ab Initio Investigation of FeAs/GaAs for Potential Superconducting and Spintronic Applications Supervisor: Prof. Nicola Spaldin
2009:	MSc in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces, Imperial College, London, England. Thesis: Little and Large: Topological Defects in Cosmology and Condensed Matter Supervisor: Prof. Ray Rivers
2008:	Bachelor of Arts Moderatorship in Theoretical Physics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Thesis: Mechanism of Ferroelectricity in Ternary Fluorides NaCaF3 and NaCdF3. Supervisor: Dr. Claude Ederer

Research Experience

2008:	Tyndall National Institute, Cork, Ireland Atomic Scale Model Interfaces between High-k Silicates and Germanium Supervisor: Dr. Simon Elliott and Dr. James Greer
2007	University of California Santa Barbara, USA Density Functional Theory study of the thermoelectric properties of SrTiO3 Supervisor: Dr. Kris Delaney and Prof. Nicola Spaldin
2006:	FOCAS Institute, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland Theoretical Modelling of the Holographic Recording Properties of Photopolymers Supervisor: Dr. Izabela Naydenova and Dr. Vincent Toal

Contributed Talks

2011:	Ab Initio Investigation of the Failure of Efficient Spin-Injection in Fe/GaAs Superlattices (S. M. Griffin, N.A Spaldin) APS March Meeting, Dallas, TX, USA
	Fe-Pnictide Features in FeAs/GaAs Superlattices (S. M. Griffin, N. A. Spaldin) Korrelationstage 2011, Dresden, Germany
2010:	Could pnictide-type superconductivity occur in FeAs/GaAs superlattices? (S. M. Griffin, N. A. Spaldin) APS March Meeting, Portland, OR, USA
	Magnetic Monopoles in Spin Ice (S. M. Griffin) Prof. Ram Seshadri's 286G class at UC Santa Barbara
	Searching for High-Tc Features in FeAs/GaAs (S. M. Griffin, N. A. Spaldin) APS, Caltech CA, USA
2009:	Little and Large: Topological Defects in Cosmology and Condensed Matter (S. M. Griffin, R. J. Rivers) APS CA-NV Section, Monterrey, CA, USA
2008:	Modelling a Hologram (S. M. Griffin, I. Naydenova, V. Toal) Institute of Physics Nexus Conference, Birmingham, UK
	Attacking the Many Body Problem (S. M. Griffin) Dublin University Mathematical Society, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Invited Talks

2010:

What Multiferroics can tell us about the Origins of the Universe (S.M. Griffin, N.A. Spaldin)
HISKP Kolloquium, University of Bonn, Germany

Publications

[2]	Griffin S.M. and Spaldin N.A. Ab initio investigation of FeAs/GaAs heterostructures for potential spintronic and superconducting applications Phys. Rev. B, 85, 155126 (2012)
[1]	Griffin S.M., Lilienblum M., Delaney K., Kumagai Y., Fiebig M. and Spaldin N.A. From multiferroics to cosmology: Scaling behaviour and beyond in the hexagonal manganites arXiv.org, (2012)

Posters

2011:	Sinead M. Griffin won a prize at the MRC Graduate Symposium, ETH Zurich on July 8, 2011 with her poster Multiferroics and the Early Universe (S.M. Griffin, N.A. Spaldin)
2010:	Possible Fe-Pnictide Superconductivity in FeAs/GaAs superlattices (S.M. Griffin, N.A. Spaldin) Electronic Structure of Fe-based Superconductors Conference, MPI Stuttgart, Germany

Workshops

2011:	Emergent States of Electronic Matter MaNEP Winter School, Saas Fee, Switzerland
2009:	Summer School on Materials Modeling from First Principles: Theory and Practice ICMR, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.

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