Carmen Gagne, Postdoctoral Research Associate, is a computaional and theoretical physicist who studies phase transitions in materials science, condensed matter, and cosmological systems, primarily through numerical simulations. Her current research includes the study of nucleation in martinsitic solids and other systems of interest in condensed matter physics and materials science in collaboration with Harvey Gould at Clark and Bill Klein at Boston University, and looking for opportunities to contribute to biological physics.

She received her B.S. from the University of New Hampshire in 1995 and her Ph.D. from Dartmouth College in 2001. She continues to collaborate with Marcelo Gleiser and Rudnei Ramos at Dartmouth College in numerical studies of cosmological phase transitions, especially the effect of the cooling rate on the dynamics on Ginsburg-Landau models that are inspired by the electroweak phase transition.