SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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Axel Brunger
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, of Photon Science and, by courtesy, of Structural Biology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsOne of my primary goals is to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of synaptic neurotransmitter release by conducting imaging and single-molecule/particle reconstitution experiments, in conjunction with near-atomic resolution structural studies of the synaptic vesicle fusion machinery.
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Philip Bucksbaum
Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor of Natural Science and Professor of Photon Science, of Applied Physics and of Physics
BioPhil Bucksbaum holds the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Chair in Natural Science at Stanford University, with appointments in Physics, Applied Physics, and in Photon Science at SLAC. He conducts his research in the Stanford PULSE Institute (https://web.stanford.edu/~phbuck). He and his wife Roberta Morris live in Menlo Park, California. Their grown daughter lives in Toronto.
Bucksbaum was born and raised in Iowa, and graduated from Harvard in 1975. He attended U.C. Berkeley on a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship and received his Ph.D. in 1980 for atomic parity violation experiments under Professor Eugene Commins, with whom he also has co-authored a textbook, “Weak Interactions of Leptons and Quarks.” In 1981 he joined Bell Laboratories, where he pursued new applications of ultrafast coherent radiation from terahertz to vacuum ultraviolet, including time-resolved VUV ARPES, and strong-field laser-atom physics.
He joined the University of Michigan in 1990 and stayed for sixteen years, becoming Otto Laporte Collegiate Professor and then Peter Franken University Professor. He was founding Director of FOCUS, a National Science Foundation Physics Frontier Center, where he pioneered research using ultrafast lasers to control quantum systems. He also launched the first experiments in ultrafast x-ray science at the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Lab. In 2006 Bucksbaum moved to Stanford and SLAC, and organized the PULSE Institute to develop research utilizing the world’s first hard x-ray free-electron laser, LCLS. In addition to directing PULSE, he has previously served as Department Chair of Photon Science and Division Director for Chemical Science at SLAC. His current research is in laser interrogation of atoms and molecules to explore and image structure and dynamics on the femtosecond scale. He currently has more than 250 publications.
Bucksbaum is a Fellow of the APS and the Optical Society, and has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has held Guggenheim and Miller Fellowships, and received the Norman F. Ramsey Prize of the American Physical Society for his work in ultrafast and strong-field atomic and molecular physics. He served as the Optical Society President in 2014, and also served as the President of the American Physical Society in 2020. He has led or participated in many professional service activities, including NAS studies, national and international boards, initiatives, lectureships and editorships. -
Brendon A Bullard
Research Assoc-Experimental, Fundamental Physics Directorate
BioI am a postdoc in the SLAC ATLAS group working on measurements of top quarks and searches for Di-Higgs production. I am also working on the data acquisition system for the ITk pixel detector upgrade and feasibility studies for the Cool Copper Collider concept. Aside from my research interests, I am an active member of the SLAC outreach community - please do not hesitate to get in touch by email, especially if you are a student.
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Nathan D Burrows
Life Science Research Prof 2, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
Current Role at StanfordElectron Microscopy Specialist
CryoEM Specialist -
Sergio Carbajo
Casual - Nonexempt, LCLS - Linac Coherent Light Source
Current Role at StanfordDr. Sergio Carbajo is an assistant professor at the UCLA Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) and the UCLA Physics & Astronomy departments and visiting professor at Stanford University’s Photon Science Division at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. He is the founder and director of the Quantum Light-Matter Cooperative, a scientific consortium whose mission is to understand, design, and ultimately control light-driven physical processes to help solve interconnected socio-technological challenges.
Photon sciences and technologies establish the building blocks for myriad scientific and engineering frontiers in life and energy sciences. Because of this overarching functionality, the Quantum Light-Matter Cooperative’s areas of study include life sciences, biochemistry, quantum optics, and information sciences, and environmental and chemical engineering. The cooperative seeks to help solve major life and energy challenges by examining the cooperative interaction between photons and matter, and its methodologies are informed by a critically interdisciplinary approach to the science and applications of light by design. He is an active faculty member of the California NanoSystems Institute and the Center for Quantum Science and Engineering. Photon and particle sources are powerful tools with extremely high societal impact because they underpin myriad groundbreaking scientific, technological, and medical advancements. X-ray free electron lasers (XFEL) are the flagship of these instruments, which in the relatively short time since their advent have demonstrated the capacity to reveal conformational dynamics in biomolecules and ultrafast chemistry at atomic-level spatial and femtosecond temporal resolutions. Motivated by this overarching relevance, Sergio has nurtured a research career that is founded on the unification of quantum and nonlinear optics and laser-matter interactions to develop instruments capable of tackling grand fundamental questions in physics, chemistry, and biology. At SLAC, Prof. Carbajo bridges expertise across disciplines in photon sciences and accelerator physics for the advancement of next-generation XFEL technology and science, namely LCLS and LCLS-II science and instrumentation, collaboratively with faculty, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, technicians, and engineers from various directorates at SLAC and departments at Stanford.
Prof. Carbajo is also the Director of Diversity at the UCLA ECE department and the founder and director of the Queered Science and Technology Center (QSTC) at UCLA. He is laying a ground-breaking framework to address overarching issues of diversity and critical representation in STEM through queer, radical feminist, and black analyses of the impact of science & technology in society. The QSTC employs this critical framework to destabilize sexual, gendered, racialized, anthropocentric, and able-bodies logics and hierarchies in challenging and rethinking knowledge production, as a scientific exercise and introduces new methodological resources for critical interdisciplinarity in traditional STEM studies. In this capacity, he has the opportunity to recruit outstanding faculty, staff, and students, create an exciting and diverse intellectual and educational community; strategically seek out new opportunities in research and education; foster new interdisciplinary connections across campus; and actively empower involvement of (future) STEM workforce, particularly those from underrepresented backgrounds, to affect social change that is representative of the public’s interests. Partnered with non-profit institutions, he participates in several University, county and state, and federal-level sponsored programs tailored to promote equity in STEM fields through action in distinct areas of sciences and engineering. -
Stephanie R. Carlson
Admin. Services Mgr. for SSRL, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
Current Role at StanfordBusiness Manager for SSRL (Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource) and ESD (Energy Sciences Directorate)
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Alexandre Cassago
Cryo-Electron Microscopy Spec, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource
Current Role at StanfordCryoEM Specialist, Stanford-SLAC CryoEM Center
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Tracy Chalmers
Unit/Program Comms Mgr 2, Strategic Communications & External Affairs
Current Role at StanfordHead of Institutional Communications at SLAC
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Gourab Chatterjee
Staff Sci - Ultrafast Laser, LCLS - Linac Coherent Light Source
Bio2015: PhD in Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India
2015-2020: Postdoctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD), Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL), Hamburg, Germany
2020-2022: Staff scientist, Central Laser Facility (CLF), Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), Oxfordshire, UK
2022-present: Staff scientist, Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford, USA -
Edward Paul Chin
Safety Sys Engineerin Director, Accelerator
Current Role at StanfordMy role at SLAC is to support the mission of the lab by integrating a fully functional safety system which includes the Personnel Protection System, Hutch Protection System, Beam Containment System, Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection System, and the Oxygen Deficiency Monitoring System. I ensure the division is adequately staffed to design, build, test, and support the safety systems as required by the program.
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Wah Chiu
Wallenberg-Bienenstock Professor and Professor of Bioengineering and, by courtesy, of Microbiology and Immunology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research includes methodology improvements in single particle cryo-EM for atomic resolution structure determination of molecules and molecular machines, as well as in cryo-ET of cells and organelles towards subnanometer resolutions. We collaborate with many researchers around the country and outside the USA on understanding biological processes such as protein folding, virus assembly and disassembly, pathogen-host interactions, signal transduction, and transport across cytosol and membranes.
