Personal statement

Rachel Offer is a Strathclyde 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 Strathclyde in 2018. She was then awarded an EPSRC Doctoral Prize to fund a post-doc position at Strathclyde. 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 Strathclyde Chancellor's Fellowship jointly funded by the National Physical Laboratory.