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Co-director
Associate Professor, Physics & Astronomy
His research combines large-scale kinetic simulations and AI/ML to study plasma astrophysics and intense laser–plasma interactions. He received his PhD from Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, and was a researcher at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory before joining UCLA.
Co-director
Distinguished Professor, Physics & Astronomy and Electrical & Computer Engineering
He is a leader in the theory and simulation of plasma-based acceleration and nonlinear laser–plasma interactions, and his work has been recognized by numerous awards, including the APS James Clerk Maxwell Prize for Plasma Physics.
Senior researcher
Senior researcher
Senior researcher
Postdoctoral researcher
Graduate student
Nonlinear optics of asymmetric beams in plasma
Graduate student
Laser amplification in plasmas and GPU-accelerated particle-in-cell simulation
Graduate student
Nonlinear optics of plasma metamaterials and ICF
Graduate student
Particle acceleration in relativistic astrophysical jets
Graduate student
Reduced theoretical and computational models of plasma-based accelerators
Graduate student
Data-driven reduced models and closures for kinetic plasmas
Graduate student
Stimulated Raman and Brillouin scattering in inhomogeneous plasmas
Graduate student
Physics-informed ML to reconstruct plasma dynamics from experimental data
Frederico Fiúza·Ricardo A. Fonseca·Thomas Grismayer·Chandrashekhar (Chan) Joshi·Richard D. Sydora·Xinlu Xu
Former students, postdocs and researchers of the group, and where they went next.