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Sandra Gail Biedron is a US accelerator physicist at the University of New Mexico.

Early Life and Education
Biedron completed a BA Chemistry and Biology with a minor in mathematics from Trinity Christian College in (1994) and obtained her Ph.D. in Accelerator Physics from the University of Lund in Sweden in 2001.

Research and Career
Biedron was a physicist at Argonne National Laboratory from 1993, where she was also project officer for the Department of Defence and Associate Director of the Argonne Accelerator Institute. She worked at Colorado State University as an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and is now Research Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of New Mexico (UNM).

Her current research involves neural networks and machine learning for simulation and control of particle accelerators.

Dr. Biedron held grants totalling several million USD as Principal Investigator. She was a key technical consultant on the FERMI@ELLETRA project. She is an affiliate of the Centre for Bright Beams at Cornell University. She is on the editorial board of IEEE Access and the American Physical Society’s Physical Review Accelerators and Beams.

Awards and Honours

 * 2018 awarded the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society’s Particle Accelerator Science and Technology award
 * 2013 George T. Abell Outstanding Mid-Career Faculty Award at Colorado State University
 * 2013 Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS)
 * 2003 Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
 * Senior Member of the Optical Society of America (OSA)