Areas of research: X-ray and ultrafast science; Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS); LCLS-II; molecular movies; chemical sciences; chemical dynamics; X-ray imaging; ultrafast electron diffraction...
Areas of research: Energy sciences; catalysis; sustainable production and use of fuels and chemicals
Areas of research: Physics of the universe; particle physics; LHC physics with the ATLAS Experiment; Higgs boson; advanced accelerator R&D; future electron-positron collider R&D...
Wolfgang K. H. “Pief” Panofsky, a renowned physicist and passionate arms control advocate, was SLAC’s first director. Panofsky pressed the case for basic accelerator...
Chi-Chang Kao, a noted X-ray scientist, came to SLAC in 2010 to serve as associate laboratory director for the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource. He...
Nathan covers fundamental physics and bioscience for SLAC, which he joined in 2020 after three years at the Stanford News Service. Before that, he...
Glennda edits all sorts of materials and writes about things like quantum materials, making fuels from water and building better batteries. She’s a former...
John Sarrao became SLAC’s sixth director in October 2023. He came to SLAC from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico, where he...
David covers accelerator research, biosciences and SLAC’s powerful lightsource, SSRL.