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Félicie Albert

Félicie Albert

Director, Jupiter Laser Facility , Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Félicie Albert is the Director of the Jupiter Laser Facility, a mid-scale, open-access user facility focusing on plasma, high energy density and fusion sciences. She earned her PhD in physics in 2007 from the Ecole Polytechnique in France, her MS in Optics from the University of Central Florida in 2004, and her BS in engineering from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Marseille, France, in 2003. Her areas of expertise include the generation and applications of novel sources of electrons, x-rays and gamma-rays through laser-plasma interaction, laser-wakefield acceleration, and Compton scattering. She has conducted many experiments using high-intensity lasers at various facilities around the world. Félicie received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2019, was awarded a 2016 DOE Early Career Research Program Award to develop new x-ray sources for high energy density science experiments and has been leading several Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) projects at LLNL. She is the recipient of the 2017 American Physical Society (APS) Katherine E. Weimer Award for outstanding contributions to plasma science research and of the 2017 Edouard Fabre Prize for contributions to the physics of laser-produced plasmas. She was elected a Fellow of the APS (Division of Plasma Physics) in 2019, a National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow in 2020 and a Fellow of Optica (formerly OSA) in 2023.  Félicie has held many leadership and advisory roles in the high intensity laser and plasma science communities. This includes chair of LaserNetUS, a network of high-power lasers in North America between 2020-2022, serving on the NAS committee for the assessment of High Energy Density Science in 2021-2022, and on the recent 2024 DOE FESAC subcommittee on facilities construction projects. She is currently the chair-elect of the American Physical Society, Division of Plasma Physics.

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