Summary
Scott Baily is a condensed matter experimental physicist with nine years of professional experience at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he has progressed from instrumentation and controls to senior Scientist 4 roles. He specializes in electrical and thermal transport measurements, magnetometry, experiment design, and hands-on hardware/software debugging, bringing lab-grade rigor to applied problem solving. His background includes multiple postdoctoral fellowships and PhD research probing superconductivity, vortex pinning, and anomalous Hall effects, giving him deep expertise in low-temperature and magnetic materials experiments. Based in Los Alamos, he combines decades of bench experience with large-facility operations know-how, making him adept at turning complex measurement challenges into reliable, reproducible systems. Notably, his career threads both accelerator instrumentation and fundamental condensed-matter studies, a mix that enables cross-disciplinary approaches to real-world measurement problems.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Ph.D., Physics, Ph.D., Physics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign