Awards and Honors
Arianna Gleason - 2025 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
PECASE recognizes scientists and engineers who show exceptional potential for leadership early in their research careers.
Adrien Descamps - 2024 LCLS Young Investigator
Descamps was recognized for turning the world’s most powerful X-ray laser into a sophisticated tool for probing extremely hot, dense matter
Arianna Gleason - 2024 Oppenheimer Fellow
The Oppenheimer Science and Energy Leadership Program is a distinguished Fellowship Program, recognising exceptional leaders at the DOE National Labs and their partners.
Claudia Parisuana - NERSC "Science as Art" Competition
2nd place in the "Best Visual Impact" for animations, with Water Droplet Explosion INduced by an XFEL Pulse
Armin Bergermann - Feodor Lynen Fellowship
Armin Bergermann from the University of Rostock, Germany, is awarded the Feodor Lynen Fellowship to work for 2 years as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford in HEDS.
Frederico Fiuza and Anna Grassi - 2024 Landau Spitzer Award
For the critical advancement in the understanding of the particle acceleration physics in astrophysically-relevant shocks through theoretical analysis and experiments at the National Ignition Facility.
Siegfried Glenzer - 2023 Fulbright Award
Distinguished scientist award for work on advancing plasma sciences
Siegfried Glenzer - 2023 Secretary of Energy Achievement Award
In recognition of achieving a capsule gain greater than one on Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's National Ignition Facility, the “Capsule Gain on the National Ignition Facility” team was awarded the Secretary of Energy's Achievement Award.
Kaden Loring - 2022 Fulbright Fellowship
Kaden Loring was awarded a Fulbright research grant for the 2022-2023 academic year. He was hosted by the Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER) in the city of Eindhoven, where he collaborated with Dr. Ivo Classen and others in the Plasma Edge Physics and Diagnostics group to develop a Two-photon Absorption Laser Induced Fluorescence (TALIF) diagnostic for use on their two linear plasma devices, Upgraded Pilot-PSI (UPP) and Magnum-PSI. These devices are used to study the extreme environment expected in the divertor region of future fusion reactors.
Frederico Fiúza - 2018 Thomas H. Stix Award
for Outstanding Early Career Contributions to Plasma Physics Research
Frederico Fiúza - 2016 Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Leadership Computing Challenge
60,000,000 processor hours for his proposal Ab initio modeling of the dynamical stability of HED plasmas: from fusion
Siegfried Glenzer - 2013 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award
for his work advancing fusion and plasma sciences
Frederico Fiúza - 2013 European Physical Society Plasma Physics Division PhD Research Award
for his PhD thesis on Multi-scale PIC modeling of high energy density scenarios: from laboratory to astrophysics
Paulo Alves - 2013 Gulbenkian Prize for Stimulus to Scientific Research
for the research proposal on Ab initio studies of nonlinear electromagnetic metamaterials and plasmonics
Frederico Fiúza - 2011 Oscar Buneman Award for Scientific Visualization
Luke Fletcher - 2007 Richard Snavely Memorial Award
Siegfried Glenzer - 2004 Humboldt Award
"For his outstanding contributions to plasma and atomic physics at high densities and temperatures. The development of x-ray Compton and Thomson scattering experiments as a diagnostic tool has lead to an enormous progress in the understanding of the complex physical behavior of strongly correlated matter. These novel techniques are the basis for pioneering experiments on hot dense plasmas and for future experiments with the Free Electron Laser at DESY Hamburg."
Siegfried Glenzer - 2003 John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics
"For elegant diagnostics using collective Thomson scattering together with x-ray spectroscopy which greatly advanced the understanding of the complex plasma environment in laser driven hohlraums used in inertial confinement fusion."
Siegfried Glenzer - 2001 APS Fellow
For the development of Thomson Scattering for the diagnostics of high temperature inertial confinement fusion plasmas and for important contributions to understanding of plasma waves, atomic physics, and hydrodynamics of hot dense plasmas.
