Staff

1976      B.A., Chemistry, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Ct. 1980      Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley 1980      Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories 1986      Associate Professor of Physics, University of Oregon 1991     Professor of Physics, University of Oregon 2007      Physics Department Head, University of Oregon 2012     Division Deputy for Science, Advanced Light Source 2018     Interim Director, Advanced Light Source

Education

• Diploma in Physics, Cologne University, Germany (1995)
• Dr rer. nat. in Physics (PhD), Cologne University and Jülich Research Lab, Germany (1998)

Professional Experience

• Senior Staff Scientist at LBNL (since 2016)
• Deputy, ALS Experimental Systems Group (2015-2018)
• Staff Scientist at LBNL (2004-2016)
• Scientist at LBNL (2000-2004)
• Postdoctoral Scientist at LBNL (1998-2000)

Fellowships, Awards, Honors

• Shirley Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement at the Advanced Light Source (2006)
• Outstanding Performance Award, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (2001)
• Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes scholarship

After completing my studies in Physics at "la Sapienza" University in Rome in 1991 ("Laurea" with honours), I worked for about 10 years at the Frascati laboratories of INFN in Italy as an accelerator researcher in the framework of DAPHNE, the Frascati positron/electron collider. During that period I was responsible for the electron/positron linac and for the development of a number of beam diagnostics systems. I also was a main player during the commissioning phase of the project. In 2001, I moved to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to be part of the Accelerator Physics group of the Advanced Light Source. Presently, I am a Senior Scientist and the ALS Division Deputy for Accelerator Operations,  and the ALS Accelerator Physics Group leader. In addition to that I am also the ALS Accelerator Physics Program Head at the ATAP Division. From 2009 to 2017 I was the Principal Investigator of the APEX project, the injector facility developed at LBNL to characterize the performance of the VHF-Gun, a new concept high-repetition rate high-brightness electron source optimized for high duty cycle X-ray FEL applications. A close version of the VHF-Gun was built at LBNL and delivered to SLAC to operate  the injector of the LCLS-II, the high-repetition rate X-ray FEL in construction at Stanford. In 2013 I became a fellow of the American Physical Society for my contributions to the understanding of coherent synchrotron radiation in storage rings and the development of high brightness electron beam sources. For more information, you can consult my personal webpage linked on the top-right part of this page.