Matthew Lawson

Experience

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  Sandia National Laboratories

  Aug 2009 - Jun 2011

  Senior Technologist

  Senior technologist in the Combustion Research Facility at Sandia National Labs.Responsible for the day-to-day operation of a multi-million dollar research facility,focusing on laser-induced flourescence of turbulent reacting flows (weshot lasers at giant flames).

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  University of California, Davis

  Sept 2011 - Oct 2017

  Graduate Student

  Graduate student at UC Davis in physics, which led to a Ph.D.Reserch activities focused on NMR investigations of strongly correlated materials.Teaching activies inluded everything from grading to lecturing 300 student classes.

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  Stockholm University

  Feb 2018 - Sept 2022

  Postdoctoral Scholar

  Postdoc, inventing and building axion dark matter detectors. Spokesperson of the ALPHA collaboration,Co-proposer of the Plasma Haloscope axion detector.Radio astronomy of neutron stars for axion detection, data mining SETI datasets for dark matter signatures. Member of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr).Data analysis, experiment automation, reliability, failure analysis, plumbing, magnet stability,Xenon hyperpolarization, and other activities related to axion detection. Show less

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  Savantic AB

  Aug 2022 - now

  Technical Consultant