Heather L. Crawford is a Senior Staff Scientist in the Nuclear Science Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA. She obtained her BSc in Chemistry from Simon Fraser University (British Columbia, Canada) in 2006 and her PhD in nuclear chemistry from Michigan State University in 2010. Her research is focused on the structure of very neutron-rich nuclei and experiments performed at international facilities such as the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, as well as the development of the experimental tools necessary to enable such studies.