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To achieve our ambitious goals and keep SLAC a great place to work, the lab needs a creative, diverse and united workforce – people with a wide variety of experiences and ideas, skills and backgrounds. SLAC people are scientists, engineers and technicians; IT, finance, facilities and infrastructure experts; project managers and safety and security professionals; administrative, human relations and public relations specialists; and many others, all working together.

SLAC researchers are experts in a broad range of scientific disciplines, including X-ray and ultrafast science, physics of the universe, advanced accelerators, energy sciences, science of life and new technologies.

SSRL’s 50th Anniversary group photo
Dominique White takes a look at the last cryomodule for LCLS-II delivered from Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

I’m excited every day to come in and work with such an incredibly passionate team. I'm also excited to see the new research that this tool will allow scientists to develop, especially regarding the future of clean energy.”

Dominique White LCLS-II staff engineer
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SLAC people

Aerial view of a smiling group of guests standing close together, holding a large banner that reads 'LSST Camera Bon Voyage'.
Guests at a SLAC "Bon Voyage" party celebrate the LSST Camera before it begins its journey to the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The event included remarks from Kathy Turner, cosmic frontier operations manager from the DOE Office of High Energy Physics, and SLAC Director John Sarrao. (Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Two smiling scientists standing near equipment used to study ultrafast processes with SLAC’s X-ray laser, lightly touching components while facing the camera.
SLAC's Shubhadeep Biswas, left, and Stanford's Matthias Kling study ultrafast processes with SLAC's X-ray laser, the Linac Coherent Light Source.   (Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Two scientists working in the FACET-II test facility.
A look inside SLAC’s FACET-II test facility, where scientists use electron beams to advance revolutionary technologies that could make future particle accelerators much smaller and a lot more capable. (Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
View of workshop participants seated at a long table, each working on an open laptop.
Participants in the 2023 Image Processing Workshop for Cryo-Electron Microscopy at SLAC. (Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
Two Workers with yellow vests & hard hats speaking in front of CUIR cable delivery.
SLAC’s Critical Utilities Infrastructure Revitalization (CUIR) Project is a construction capital improvement project that aims to empower SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC) to continue its research mission and objectives for years to come. (Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
A person hands a book to a visitor while tabling at the event.
A Memorial Day social hosted by SLAC's Military Community ERG included lunch and displays of military memorabilia.  (Jacqueline Ramseyer Orrell/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
SLAC’s Arianna Gleason speaks with advisors to Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Brouilette

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Annual workshop for cryo-EM developments and a poster session.
Eric Cunningham, staff scientist in the Laser Science and Technology Division of LCLS.

It’s the amazing people at SLAC that gave us our illustrious history, make it such a special place today and will ensure a continued impact into the future.”

Eric Cunningham LCLS staff scientist
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Our people in SLAC news

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Derek Mendez and Xueli “Sherry” Zheng aim to accelerate drug discovery and improve energy storage.

Man and woman
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He was honored for his work in ultrafast physics.

Portrait of Shambhu Ghimire
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Her work will advance a next-generation experiment in the hope of detecting this mysterious ingredient of the universe.

Portrait of Ann Wang
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Derek Mendez and Xueli “Sherry” Zheng aim to accelerate drug discovery and improve energy storage.

Man and woman
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He was honored for his work in ultrafast physics.

Portrait of Shambhu Ghimire
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Her work will advance a next-generation experiment in the hope of detecting this mysterious ingredient of the universe.

Portrait of Ann Wang
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SLAC Deputy Director for Science and Technology Alberto Salleo's lab at Stanford is creating artificial synapses to replicate the brain’s efficiency and learning capacity...

Alberto Salleo and graduate student Scott Keene in the lab
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Shweta Saraf and her team work to ensure the LCLS beamline runs without interruption. 

A woman stands next to a large blue server rack filled with electronic control units, wiring, and monitoring equipment. She is smiling at the camera while using a stylus to interact with a touchscreen interface on one of the devices.
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The upgrades to SSRL’s resonant soft X-ray scattering beam line could reveal the hidden physics in high-temperature superconductors.

A gold beam strikes a sample inside a copper colored apparatus. A white beam emerges.