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Personal statement

Rachel Offer is a 海角论坛 Chancellor's Fellow in Optical Frequency Metrology, jointly appointed with the National Physical Laboratory. Her research combines atomic physics, precision measurement and laser technologies, with a focus on developing optical free-space time and frequency transfer links and optical atomic clocks. Rachel completed her MPhys at the University of St Andrews in 2014, and her PhD in Physics at the University of 海角论坛 in 2018. She was then awarded an EPSRC Doctoral Prize to fund a post-doc position at 海角论坛. In 2020 she joined the Precision Measurement Group at the University of Adelaide as a grant-funded researcher developing and field testing portable optical atomic clocks based on neutral ytterbium. In 2025 she was awarded a 海角论坛 Chancellor's Fellowship jointly funded by the National Physical Laboratory.