Curriculum Vitae

Education

Princeton University, Physics  AB 1974

Stanford University, Electrical Engineering  MS 1976

Stanford University, Electrical Engineering  PhD 1979

Appointments

Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley

• Professor of the Graduate School (2018-present)

• Department Chair (1995-2000)

• Professor (1991-2018)

• Associate Professor (1988-91)

• Assistant Professor (1983-88)

Additional appointments, University of California, Berkeley

• Affiliated Faculty, Applied Science & Technology Program 

• Affiliated Faculty, Energy and Resources Group 

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

• Director, Advanced Light Source (2006-17) 

Stanford University

• Marvin Chodorow Fellow, Applied Physics Department (1980-83)

Selected Honors 

• Member, National Academy of Sciences, and American Academy of Arts and Sciences

• Fellow, American Physical Society, OPTICA (The Optical Society - OSA), and American Association for the Advancement of Science

• APS 5-Sigma Physicist Award for Outstanding Advocacy (2019)

• APS Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics (2015) (with seven others)

• APS Leo Szilard Lectureship Award (2005) (with the APS Study Group on Boost-Phase Intercept Systems for National Missile Defense)

• LBNL Advanced Light Source Halbach Prize for Instrumentation (2000) (with one other)

• APS Distinguished Traveling Lecturer of the Laser Science Topical Group (1992-93)

• NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1984) 

Selected Professional Activities

• President, Advisory Board, Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland

• Chair, International Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee, Extreme Laser Infrastructure

• Chair, LaserNetUS Science Advisory Board, U.S. Department of Energy, Fusion Energy Sciences

• Member, International Scientific Advisory Committee, Apollon Research Infrastructure, France

• Member, External Advisory Committee, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State U 

• Member Scientific Advisory Committee for the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Laboratory

• Member NSF OPAL External Advisory Board, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, University of Rochester

• Member Advisory Board of the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium at UC Berkeley

• Member, PULSE Institute External Advisory Committee, Stanford University

• Past President of the American Physical Society (2018) ; APS Presidential Line (2016-19)

• Past Member, Advisory Committee, Lawrence Hall of Science, UC Berkeley

• Past Member, American Physical Society Bridge Program Disciplinary Advisory Board

• Past Co-Chair, NSF MPS Facilities and Major Research Infrastructure Subcommittee

• Past Member, Board of Directors, Hertz Foundation

• Past Member, International Review Committee, SLiT-J Synchrotron, Japan 

• Past Member, Adv. Com., Quant.-Mats. for Energy Eff. Neuromorphic-Computing  Q-MEEN-C, UCSD

• Past Member, Executive Committee, NIF User Group, Lawrence Livermore National Lab

• Past Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley Lab (2015-20)

• Past Member, US & Russian National Academy of Sciences Committee on Missile Defense (2017-18)

• Past Director, Institute for Materials Dynamics at Extreme Conditions, Univ. CA (2011-16) 

• Past Elected Member and President, Lafayette, CA, School District Governing Board (2000-2004)

• Past Member, NSF LIGO Program Advisory Committee (2016-19)

• Past Co-Chair of the NSF-DMR Committee for the Materials 2022 Report 

• Past Chair of the DOE-SC-, NNSA-, NSF-, and NPI-supported Brightest Light Initiative Workshop (2019)