Sinead completed her MPhys in Physics at the University of Liverpool, graduating in the summer of 2023. During her undergraduate degree she undertook two international placements including an academic exchange to Queens University (Canada) and an internship based at the University of Coimbra. During her internship Sinead developed an interest in physics beyond the Standard Model (BSM) while working on the Future Circular Collider feasibility study; This led to her completing her master’s project, titled ‘Investigating the Sensitivity Reach of The FASER 2 Experiment at The New Planned CERN Forward Physics Facility’, during her final year.
Sinead joined the LIV.INNO CDT in October 2023 and will be completing her PhD within the FASER group at the University of Liverpool. Her research involves expanding on the analysis of the first data of FASER to improve the dark photon sensitivity of the experiment, as well as probing new physics models through application of multi-variate techniques such as neural networks.