Principle Investigators
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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Assistant Research Scientist, UCSD Center for Energy Research
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Ph.D. Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, 2011
B.Sc. Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, 2007
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Research Scientist Emeritus, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
Ph.D. MIT, 1983
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Post-Doctoral Researchers
Email group for available positions (3/2023)
Graduate Students
Email group for available positions (3/2023)
Undergraduate Students
Joshua Simpson (Physics)
Undergraduate Laboratory Assistant
Noah Dilworth (MAE)
Laboratory Assistant
Ann Truong (ECE, Physics)
Undergraduate Laboratory Assistant
Elise Rehder (MAE)
Undergraduate Laboratory Assistant
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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Tobias Oliver
Graduate Student, University of Colorado
Dr Luis Sebastian Caballero Bendixsen
Research Scientist at First Light Fusion, Oxfordshire, UK