Dr Sarah Scholten Recognised for her Outstanding Work at this Year’s Women in Innovation Awards

Women in Innovation (WINN) is a not-for-profit initiative that supports innovative women in South Australia. Their Awards program serves to highlight and honour some of South Australia’s most remarkable and innovative women.

Dr Sarah Scholten is an experimental physicist at the University’s Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing. She’s on a mission to push the boundaries of precision measurement by harnessing the extraordinary properties of light.

Dr Scholten’s passion lies in translating experimental breakthroughs into tangible measurement devices that tackle complex real-world problems. One of these challenges involves mitigating the growing issue of interference with GPS timing and navigational signals. Through innovations in portable timing solutions, she’s making strides in reducing these disruptions.

A significant accomplishment in her career has been the development of a groundbreaking atomic clock. The clock, based on dual-colour laser interrogation of rubidium atoms, started as a lab-based concept and has evolved into a successful international field demonstration.

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