Félicie Albert is a French and 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 Federally funded research and development centers, federally funded research and development center in Livermore, California, United States. Originally established in 1952, the laboratory now i ...

(LLNL) and staff scientist at the

National Ignition Facility The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is a laser-based inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research device, located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, United States. NIF's mission is to achieve fusion ignition wit ...

and Photon Science Directorate and the Joint High Energy Density Sciences organization.

Education and career

She received a BS in 2003 in engineering from École Nationale Supérieure de Physique de Marseille (now

École Centrale de Marseille École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * Éco ...

), in France, her master's degree in optics from the

University of Central Florida The University of Central Florida (UCF) is a public university, public research university with its main campus in unincorporated area, unincorporated Orange County, Florida, United States. It is part of the State University System of Florida. ...

in 2004 and her PhD from prestigious

École Polytechnique (, ; also known as Polytechnique or l'X ) is a ''grande école'' located in Palaiseau, France. It specializes in science and engineering and is a founding member of the Polytechnic Institute of Paris. The school was founded in 1794 by mat ...

with advisor Antoine Rousse in 2007. Her PhD thesis is entitled "Synchrotron radiation based on laser-plasma interaction in the relativistic range." Albert then joined Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow in 2008. Her main areas of 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 Compton scattering (or the Compton effect) is the quantum theory of high frequency photons scattering following an interaction with a charged particle, usually an electron. Specifically, when the photon hits electrons, it releases loosely bound e ...

." Albert became a

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American citizen in 2018.

Awards and recognition

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". In 2023, she was named a Fellow of Optica, "for pioneering research on the development and applications of x-ray sources driven by

laser-wakefield acceleration Plasma acceleration is a technique for accelerating charged particles, such as electrons or ions, using the electric field associated with an electron plasma wave or other high-gradient plasma structures. These structures are created using either ...

and leadership in the LaserNetUS initiative."

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Albert, Felicie 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 scientists Recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers 21st-century American physicists