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  Siegfried Glenzer, the director of SLAC's HEDS division, has been awarded the Edward Teller Medal Award for 2025 by the American Nuclear Society.   The award recognizes his leading role in advancing capabilities that enabled the National Ignition Facility to successfully demonstrate fusion gain, as well as his contributions to fundamental science and his mentorship of the next generation of scientific leaders. The Edward Teller Award is awarded biennially, and recognizes...

Using the DIPOLE 100-X high-power laser at the European XFEL's HED-HIBEF, an international research collaboration, including SLAC and led by the University of Rostock, has succeeded in studying liquid carbon in detail for the first time. 

Griffin Glenn, a PhD student in our division, is a Student Ambassador for the LaserNetUS consortium. He was recently interviewed and talked about the benefits of access to the high power lasers that LaserNetUS provides. See the interview on LinkedIn!

  Max Maigler, who worked with the HEDS division while a visiting student at Stanford, was awarded his PhD summa cum laude from the University of the Bundeswehr Munich for his thesis "Atomic-Scale Simulation of keV Xenon Ion Irradiation-Induced Erosion in Spacecraft Electric Thruster Materials".

  Faculty members from the Stanford Robotics Center, along with members of the HEDS division, visited the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Lab to plan uses of robotics in support of fusion research.

  PhD student Griffin Glenn won the best student poster award at the IFE-STAR Conference for his poster "Laser-driven ion acceleration from pre-expanded converging H2O microjets"

  HEDS postdoc Alexis Marret received 205,6000 node hours at the Texas Advanced Computing Center for his allocation proposal titled ""Multi-scale modeling of ion beams from hybrid laser-plasma to RF accelerator".