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Principle Investigators

Dr Simon Bott-Suzuki

Associate Research Scientist, UCSD Center for Energy Research

Educator, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department

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Visiting Professor, Applied and Engineering Physics, Cornell University

Visiting Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

 

Ph.D. University of Sheffield, UK, 2004

M.Phys. University of Sheffield, UK, 1999


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Dr Maria Pia Valdivia Leiva

Assistant Research Scientist, UCSD Center for Energy Research

Educator, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department

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Ph.D. Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, 2011

B.Sc. Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, 2007

 


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Dr Mark Tillack 

Research Scientist Emeritus, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department

Ph.D. MIT, 1983

 


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Research Staff

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Dr Yu Chang

Post-Doctoral Researcher, Center for Energy Research

Ph.D. 2023. Rochester Institute of Technology

 

Graduate Students

Noah Dilworth (MAE)

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Ann Truong (ECE, Physics)

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Dzafer Camdzic (Physics)

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Undergraduate Students

Elise Rehder (MAE)

Undergraduate Laboratory Assistant

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Sergio Veliz (Physics)

Undergraduate Laboratory Assistant

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Former Group Members

Dr Sam Cordaro

Post-Doctoral Researcher, Fusion and Radiation Group

Sandia National Laboratories

https://www.sandia.gov/pulsed-power

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Dr Jacob Banasek

Scientist in the Advanced Pulsed Power Capabilities Group,

Sandia National Laboratories

https://www.sandia.gov/pulsed-power

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Dr Luis Sebastian Caballero Bendixsen

Research Scientist at First Light Fusion, Oxfordshire, UK

https://firstlightfusion.com/

 

 

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