July 17, 2026

4 HEDS scientists win prizes at LaserNetUS Meeting

By njh@slac.stanf…

Poster prize winners at LaserNetUS 2026

Members of the HEDS division made a strong showing at this year's LaserNetUS meeting, presenting work performed at facilities across the US. The winning posters were:

  • Armin Bergermann (Postdoc), for "First-principles simulations of X-ray Thomson scattering in warm dense carbon using real-time TDDFT"
  • Jhonnatan Gama Vazquez (PhD Student), for "Enhanced proton acceleration due to recirculation in target normal sheath acceleration"
  • Daniella Fenster (Summer Intern), for "Microstructural and Compositional Characterization of Tungsten-Rhenium Thin Films for First-Wall Fusion Applications"
  • Ruth Reynolds (Summer Intern), for "Interfacial dynamics governing the encapsulation of millimeter-scale droplets in lab- on-a-chip geometries"

Congratulations to them, and to all the prize winners!