Suzie Sheehy

Research and career In 2010 Sheehy was awarded a Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 fellowship in high intensity hadron accelerators. She was appointed to a joint position in Intense Hadron Accelerators with the University of Oxford and Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) in 2015, and is now a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. Sheehy worked with the Royal Institution to create videos about particle accelerators. She gave the 2012 National Space Academy keynote talk. She appeared on Discovery Channel's Impossible Engineering. She was a speaker at 2018 TED x Sydney.

In 2022 she published her first book of popular science: The Matter of Everything: Twelve Experiments that Changed Our World (Bloomsbury).

Awards and honours 2017 awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (URF). 2016 Institute of Physics HEPP Group Science in Society Award 2010 University of Oxford Vice Chancellors Civic Award 2010 British Science Association Lord Kelvin Award