Oral History: Kathleen Amm (2017)

Kathleen M. Amm earned a Ph.D. in Condensed Matter Physics from Florida State University in 1998 and a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Toronto in 1993. Her primary research areas include: MRI and medical applications of superconductivity, superconducting electric machines, high-temperature superconductivity, material properties at low temperatures, and permanent magnets. She has more than twenty-five years of experience in superconductivity and magnet development and design, MRI, management of research and development and project management. Since 2018, Amm has been the head of the Superconducting Magnet Division at Brookhaven National Lab, where she works with her team to deliver innovative accelerator and high field magnet technology. Previously, she worked at GE Research for twenty years, holding various posts including: project manager, Magnets; technology leader, MRI technologies and systems; and Lab manager and physicist, electromagnets and superconductivity. Amm is a member of several professional societies and is a Senior Member of IEEE. She is an active volunteer in the IEEE Council on Superconductivity and has served as Assistant Treasurer of the Applied Superconductivity Conference since 2008.