Phiala E. Shanahan

Phiala E. Shanahan
Born
Phiala E. Shanahan

Australia
Alma materUniversity of Adelaide
Known forTheoretical Physics, Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics
AwardsMaria Goeppert-Mayer Award
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
College of William & Mary
Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility
Doctoral advisorAnthony William Thomas, Ross D. Young

Phiala Elisabeth Shanahan is an Australian theoretical physicist who lives and works in the United States. She is known for her work on the structure and interactions of hadrons and nuclei and her innovative use of machine learning techniques in lattice quantum field theory calculations.