Félicie Albert is a French-born American physicist working on laser plasma accelerators. She is the deputy director for the Center for High Energy Density Science at

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is a federal research facility in Livermore, California, United States. The lab was originally established as the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Livermore Branch in 1952 in response ...

and staff scientist at the

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and Photon Science Directorate and the Joint High Energy Density Sciences organization. She received BS in 2003 in engineering from Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Marseille (now Ecole Centrale de Marseille), in France, her master's degree in optics from the University of Central Florida in 2004 and her PhD from Ecole Polytechnique in 2007, before joining LLNL as a postdoctoral fellow in 2008. Her main expertise are "the generation and applications of novel sources of electrons, X-rays and gamma-rays through laser-plasma interaction, laser-wakefield acceleration and Compton scattering." She received the Katherine E. Weimer Award from the

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in 2017, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineers in 2019. Also in 2019, she was named a

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, after a nomination from the APS Division of Plasma Physics, "for many original contributions to the development of directional X-ray beams for probing high-energy-density matter".

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* Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American women physicists École Polytechnique alumni Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory staff University of Central Florida alumni Fellows of the American Physical Society 21st-century American women Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers {{US-physicist-stub