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Mr Scott Olsen

Olsen,_S_150.jpgSample environment manager
Phone +61 (0)2 9717 7039
Email scott.olsen@ansto.gov.au

Mr Scott Olsen is the Sample Environment Manager for the Institute and the neutron-beam program at OPAL, and he is responsible for all the sample environment apparatus (cryostats, furnaces, magnets, pressure cells, stress rigs, etc.) for our neutron beam instruments.

His expertise includes project management, operations and quality management, vacuum technology, design for manufacturability, OH&S and electronics manufacturing.

Scott is a multi-disciplinary engineer with a keen interest in Science and assisting Scientists in their research. After completing a BSc/BE he worked from 1997-2000 at a Solar Cell research company in Sydney maintaining some of the research equipment (sputtering machines, electron-beam deposition machines) and managing varies projects as required by the research groups. He completed a MEngSc during this time.

In 2000 he joined a Sydney based acoustic research company building state of the art electronics for research and commercial use. Becoming Manufacturing Manager in 2003 he oversaw purchasing, manufacturing, distribution and provided support to the design engineers to minimise the time of new products. In 2005 the company was bought out by Dolby Laboratories and he transitioned the company's hardware design and manufacturing systems over to Dolby where manufacturing is now taking place.

Qualifications and achievements:

  • Dip. Business - Frontline Management -  Swinburne 2007
  • MEngSc - Microelectronics UNSW 1999
  • BEng (Hons) - Systems Engineering ANU 1996
  • BSc - Physics ANU 1994
  • ISO9001 Quality Auditor

Recent papers

F. Xia, B. O’Neill, Y. Ngothai, J. Peak, C. Tenailleau, B. Etschmann, G. Qian, J. Brugger, A. Studer, S. Olsen and A. Pring , A thermosyphon driven hydrothermal flow-through cell for in situ and time-resolved neutron diffraction studies , accepted for publication in J. Appl. Cryst. (2010). (from WOMBAT)  

D. M. Pooke, V. Chamritski, M. Fee, S. Gibson, B. T. King, J. L. Tallon, M. Meissner, R. Feyerherm, S. R. Olsen, S. J. Kennedy, and R. A. Robinson, HTS 5 Tesla Synchrotron and Neutron Beamline Magnets, IEEE Trans. Appl. Supercond., 19(3), 1372-1375 (2009).

S. R. Olsen, S. J. Kennedy, S. Kim, J. C. Schulz, R. Thiering, E. P. Gilbert, W. Lu, M. James, and R. A. Robinson, Novel Cryogenic Engineering Solutions for the New Australian Research Reactor OPAL, AIP Conference Proceedings, 985(1), 299-306 (2008).

S. A. Pullen, E. P. Gilbert, S. R. Olsen, E. A. Lang, and K. R. Doolan, An in situ rapid heat-quench cell for small-angle neutron scattering, Meas. Sci. Technol., 19, Art. No. 065707 (2008).