Current Group Members

Group Leader

Roger Falcone

301G Old LeConte (campus) / 80-230 (LBL)
Curriculum Vitae

I have been teaching at UC Berkeley in the Physics Department since 1983, and served as Department Chair from 1995 to 2000. I am also affiliated with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, where our group conducts research in atomic, molecular, and solid state physics using ultrafast-pulse lasers and x-rays. My other activities include working with Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science and other groups on K-12 education issues, collaborative research with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and occasional studies related to national security.

I also have been the Director of the Advanced Light Source at LBNL (see http://www-als.lbl.gov/als/ourorg/falcone.html) since 2006, chaired the Science Advisory Committee of the world's first x-ray free-electron laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at SLAC, and am now working towards the development of the Next Generation Light Source (NGLS) which will be a free-electron x-ray lasers with high-repetition rate, ultrafast pulses, and high-average power.

PostDocs

Byoung-ick Cho

LBL 2-332
Curriculum Vitae

My research interests are high energy density (HED) physics and ultrafast processes in material sciences using ultrafast, high intensity laser and x-ray sources. Currently I perform time resolved x-ray absorption experiment for warm dense matters at ALS, FEL-matter interaction study at LCLS. I did my Ph.D researches about high intensity laser - matter interactions in Prof. Todd Ditmire's group, UT Austin and I obtained my B.S in physics at Seoul National University.

Luke Fletcher

LLNL / LBL 2-332

Graduate Students

	Paul Davis 301 Old LeConte / LLNL
	Kyle Engelhorn LBL 2-406
	Michael Greaves LBL 2-406
	Aleksandr Polyakov LBL 2-406

Former Group Members

Tom Allison Postdoc, JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder	Alfredo Correa Postdoc, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Tom Donnelly Professor, Department of Physics, Harvey Mudd College	Ernie Glover Beamline Scientist, Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Ken Goldberg Staff Physicist, Center for X-Ray Optics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Susanna Gordon Manager, Systems Studies Department, Sandia National Laboratories
Harald Hamster Mannaging Director RHK Inc.	Steve Johnson Professor, Institute for Quantum Electronics, ETH Zurich
Ellen Judd Mom at Home	Inuk Kang Associate Professor, Seoul National University
Henry Kapteyn Professor, Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder	Jorgen Larsson Professor, Department of Physics, Lund University
Hae Ja Lee Staff Scientist, LCLS, Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory	Aaron Lindenberg Assistant Professor, Department of Material Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Margaret Murnane Professor, Department of Physics and JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder	Keir Neuman Investigator, Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, NHLBI
David Ponce National Research Council Associate Naval Research Laboratory	Datt Prantil Staff Scientist, LLNL
Jim Schuck Staff Scientist, Material Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory	Richard Snavely Deeply missed
Alan Sullivan Technical Staff, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory	Chris Weber Assistant Professor, Physics department, Santa Clara University
Dana Weinstein Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT