Helen Maynard-Casely

Helen Maynard-Casely is a physicist and science writer based in Sydney.

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Helen Maynard-Casely is an instrument scientist for the WOMBAT (high intensity powder diffraction) instrument at the Bragg Institute. 

Her expertise is in the study of small molecules and ices under pressure. Much of this work is motivated by the wish to understand the interiors of planetary bodies. Prior to working at the Bragg Institute, Helen was based at the Powder Diffraction beamline at Australian Synchrotron where she developed her program of research on planetary ices. She has also previously completed an industry-funded post-doctoral position exploring the high-pressure behviour of energetic materials.

When not working on the instrument, Helen also works to promotes science to as wide an audience as possible, her skills in this area were honed whilst working as the Christmas Lecturer’s researcher for the Royal Institution of Great Britain.

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